10 Story Detective, July 1942 — page 32: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Rocky Rhodes, famous detective sergeant, had agreed to enact d his life story for the films. But Rhodes’ Hollywood career as E screen star was sidetracked when he signed up to play the lead in a homicide seenario. TT that to always happened like that to “Rocky” Rhodes. They would hit him all of a sudden, hike Abe Dortmann’s little Negro house boy did. One minute Rhodes was standing in the garden of this palatial Hollywood home, having a cigaret away from the madness of the party inside and the next he was get- ting it in the neck. That was how Biggs, the dark little servant, landed. 30 He crashed through the screen of a second story window, dewn through the darkness and astraddle Rhodes’ Shoulders like a kid playing pick- aback. They scrambled in the soft earth of a flower bed, a tangled two- some. Rhodes bounced up first, yanked Biggs to his feet. He shook him until buck teeth clicked like eastanets and his eyes rolled Inthe brown ping-pong balls. COMclooo SS (C(O) im