The D.A. holds a candle
(Book)

First edition; see Mundell and Hubin.

Mundell, E.H. Erle Stanley Gardner,,page 43

Hubin, A.J. Crime fiction II,,volume 1, page 315

Douglas Selby, the ambitious young District Attorney of the territory around Madison City, had up before him a young man guilty of embezzling a comparatively small sum of money which he had spent gambling. Selby could have locked him up-- and perhaps ruined his life. But he wanted to find the how and the why of this otherwise law-abiding young man's gambling. Selby's investigations led him to a hit-and-run motorcycle accident, to blackmail, and to the doorstep of DeWitt Stapleton, the local big-wig, who ran things in that part of the country by and for himself.