Thubway Tham's Baggage Check

"Thubway Tham's Baggage Check" is a short story written by Johnston McCulley. Thubway Tham was the titular character in a successful, long-running series of stories by McCulley.^[1] Between 1916 and 1948, McCulley published more than 180 stories featuring Thubway Tham, a small-time crook with a lisp and a heart of gold.^[2] In this story, Thubway Tham plots revenge on amateur thieves.^[2] It first appeared in Detective Story Magazine on March 25, 1919.^{[citation needed]}