Argosy All-Story Weekly, April 18, 1925 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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Call a Cop! In London the Scotland Yard detective has some of the pertinacious qualities of the bulldog. Members of the Parisian Surete are noted for their qualities of impulsive imagi- nation. The Berlin patrolman is only a cog ina mechanical machine. The American policeman is JUST A COP. That’s all. And it is as it should be. In this country where each citizen places a supreme value on his rights as an individual he would be intolerant of a bullying, swag- gering police supervision. His policeman is, and must be, a regular fellow, just another human being. The heads of the police departments of American cities are not cloistered university professors, proud of their Phi Beta Kappa keys and their sequestered lives. They are men who started their careers patrol- ling a beat. Their promotions have been based on merit, and merit alone. FLYNN’S A DETECTIVE WEEKLY takes extreme pleasure in presenting their own stories by some of America’s premier police chiefs. Told simply, without exaggeration or heightening of effects, they are narratives of actual happenings. Selected from the experi- ences of men who have been years on the job, each of these represents the greatest, in some way the most unusual, case in the career of the writer. Each man has looked back over a gallery of hundreds of cases and selected the one that should thrill you the most. The first of this series is by JOHN M. TRACY, Chief of Police in Paterson, New Jersey. Read it for the record of a man, now on the job, who, when a difficult problem arose, went to it with all of the resources and all of the qualities of ordinary human tolerance hat distinguishes our American cops from those of Kurope. Also in the April 18th FLYNN’S The Chattering Chandelier a complete novelette by Bertrand Royal, is a further episode in the glamorous life of Inspector George Hopper. When detective after detective has been called in and has failed, Inspector Hopper, the man who works by pure logic and pure logic alone, is summoned. Did the chandelier speak? What did it say? Hopper figures it out. Can you? : COMPLETE TABLE OF CONTENTS TKE TRAIL OF A BULLET. Ng Saks ane’ PUR aCe ROGMETE.! So. eee THE CHATTERING CHANDELIER ..... . . Sertrand POPOL foe oO". ln . Novelette Mme mest DRAMATIC GASE ... oo a) ov Se Sota Mm, Tract... Cs we 2 Special Arges THE MAN HE WAS BS es 5 eek ond her ene CRI he 2 A eee JEWELS AND CROWNS es. » =. e « « Paul Jarvis eee a eM IN STRICTEST CONFIDENCE . Sit St pe sane ve NEROUIR ROME COS Sh, ni ae ery BRAIN VERSUS MACHINE . <)>... .. .'«.-.. Joseph Gollomb .-=. ..~«-2 i + .<-Spectal Articie THE BAITED TRAP. . poem Mar Vaden Marea; . . a <p eae DICTIONARY OF THE UNDERWORLD owe aah ene Overadge - 6... ak ee «Specie Feat TOUCH OF THE TENDERFOOT ., Swix, at mer Wehetles 23.2 eo ee. Ser eae SMASHING THE BIGMOB ...... . Barclay Northcote .. . ‘ Special Feature AT.LONG RANGE . Am ae i >a) Asis Sco ee ee . Short Story RAW DETECTIVE MATERIAL. ... . oye PIR OE ee een de ee eee BUREAU OF CORRESPONDENCE PF apt aS ap atat = tole April 18th issue on ae now at t all exteidtdindic RED STAR NEWS COMPANY, 280 Broadway, New York City In answering this advertisement it is desirable that you mention this magazine. COPMICL OOO KS ADVERTISING SECTION A (EF)