Detective Story Magazine, August 15, 1925

# Detective Story Magazine, August 15, 1925

This issue features "The Padded Pay Roll" by Hugh Dawson as the lead novelette, detailing a young timekeeper's descent into crime. Two serials continue: "The Man They Couldn't Arrest" by Austin J. Small (part seven of eight) and "The Snake in the Grass" by Lee Thayer (part three of six). Five short stories include Charles W. Tyler's "Big-nose Charley and Madey-line," Ernest M. Poate's "Hung on Wire," Roland Krebs's "Some 'Lulu,'" Roy W. Hinds's "Into Thin Air," and Alan Macdonald's "Sauce for the Fixer." The miscellaneous section covers crime topics and policing methods. The issue advertises Street & Smith's cloth-bound detective books and Picture-Play Magazine, featuring western fiction by George Owen Baxter.