When Peter, the new bellboy at the Atlantic Hotel, is tasked with picking up a suitcase from America at the train station, a fateful mix-up occurs: the clerk holds the luggage ticket upside down - and suddenly Peter finds himself in possession of a suitcase containing the loot from a bank robbery! With the help of all the shoeshine boys in the city, he gets on the trail of the bank robber. However, the robber is already hot on their heels. A classic among youth crime novels!.