My Friend the Murderer is written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle of the Sherlock Holmes fame. In this story, a doctor working at a penitentiary in Australia comes across a famous criminal and strikes up a casual acquaintance with him. The criminal, Wolf Tone Maloney, was famous for turning state's evidence on his own gang, which earned him a pardon and his old friend the hangman's noose. The story is about the trials and tribulations of Maloney as he attempts to start anew