Detective Story Magazine, January 7, 1928

# Detective Story Magazine, January 7, 1928

This weekly issue contains one novelette and two serials alongside five short stories. Johnston McCulley contributes The Stool Pigeon, a novelette about criminal informants. The first of three installments of Printed Peril by Christopher B. Booth forms part of the fiction lineup, while Edgar Wallace's Sinister Halls—a six-part serial—appears at part five.

The short stories include Big-Nose Charley, Goober Grabber by Charles W. Tyler, Discordant Bells by Frederick Ames Coates, Roy W. Hinds's A Steal for Health, Leslie Gordon Barnard's A Brave Coward, and Stumbled In by Howard E. Morgan. Non-fiction articles cover Drugs and Crime (treatment of addicts, part two) by Dr. Ernest M. Poate, and Famous Criminal Lawyers, featuring Sir Edward Marshall Hall. Miscellaneous departments include crime reports, articles on fingerprinting and detective dogs, and handwriting analysis.