[off topic?]

https://thrillingdetective.com/2018/10/30/philip-st-ives/

Philip [Raymond in the movie] St. Ives is an ex-newspaperman who has become a professional go-between, acting as a middle man between the police and the underworld. Insurance companies would rather pay half the value of a policy to the crooks than all the money to the victims, and the victims [usually] want what was stolen back.

The movie is pretty good, and the stories are ecellent.