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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, ani 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 i of a man, now on the job, who, when adifficult problem he arose, went to it with all of the resources and all +7 of the qualities of ordinary human tolerance that dis‘intuishes our American cops from those of Europe. Also in the April 18th FLYNN’S 4 a 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 didit say? Hopper figures it out. Can you? COMPLETE TABLE OF CONTENTS THE TRAIL OF A BULLET . oa ta Horace Kephart >: 3° <* .¢ Ug eee ee THE CHATTERING CHANDELIER oe te ft tae a ek Ie teens gino == aNovelétte MY MOST DRAMATICCASE ..... .. .. . John M, Tracy. ., : :..: . . . Special Article THE MAN HE WAS . o eo eee w we 2. 6 CK Bechdalt .— i gee ee Short Stony JEWELS AND CROWNS ~ se ew ew Mt |... 6 Raukdarvds .. >. See. Short Story. IN STRICTEST CONFIDENCE o © 0 « «es » Michgel Keat copes eo 72 Short Stocy BRAIN VERSUS MACHINE . . .... . . =. +. JosephGollomb ...... . . Special Article THE BAITED TRAP. ~ . «. . < Wyndhant Mariya]. oe... Serial DICTIONARY OF THE UNDERWORLD | . | | _ Henry Leverage... “See. 5. 2 oe Special Feature TOUCH OF THE TENDERFOOT .. . . « « « Wilier Wihecler 4 emt wre. 2c... Short Story SMASHING THE BIGMOB ,..... .. . .. Barclay Northcote ..... . . Special Feature AT.LONG RANGE, . o ce wc ce os Mansileld SOG ee = Short Story RAW DETECTIVE MATERIAL. pate ig ie ) Se Bie : Short Story BUREAU OF CORRESPONDENCE. . ° 7 . . . . . . e ° e ® e e e e April 18th issue on Sale now at all ibe apni: RED STAR NEWS COMPANY, 280 Broadway, New York City COmiCclboooks.Conn