Tr fants ae ai Saat' MONANKINGRD, self, and holders of merit citations. All of them learned detective work in its simpler forms Loft Squad, Special Investigation Squad. The cream of these divisions now form Whitman's elite group, including Lieut. Jack Harvill, who cracked the Black Legion and made himself a national reputation.
Varied Assortment of Tasks They get scorched putting out torch-murder 207 Kiaschow Read Telephone 34220 fires, like the one at Dequindre and Thirteen-Mile that burned every bit of Dorsey Bowman's Our own Chapel Lady Assistants Private Mortuary body except his teeth. They get wet pulling bodies from the river; they have to dig with
Philip Loyst's, murdered for the price of and shovel to, pull out lime-decayed bodies
self-destruction, and murder. The most. horrible psychopathic crimes leave them unimpressed.
spent examining bloody scenes, interviewing hysterical widows, irving, to get coherent information from stunned witnesses. The BROADWAY MANSIONS,
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They have seen human life snuffed out with The most up-to-date hotel in Shanghai every improbable kind of an instrument, from an ice-pick to a ball of twine. Their lives are 200 Rooms and Suites and
Cables: BROADMAN wonder of it is that six months of this doesn't send the lot of them to quiet padded cells.
"Naw." shrugs Sergt, Ulnick. "You can't take them things too serious. If I went home and worried about all the troubles I see other people have, I'd be nuts myself in a week." He won't read through a dramatic script full To the inspector; a man is guilty, or he isn't.
of interplay of personalities. He wants the facts, and leaves the embroidery to the reporters. Thus all the fine shadings of character, the suspense and thrill of detective fiction is lacking from the position in which ' the detective's setbacks, hunches, ingenious deiced in a Homicide report. It's too bad. The story of Was brought vices to lure the killer out in the open is really the way to chronicle these cases. Such a report would make it easier for the reporters and magazine writers of "fact-detective" features who infest the place. To foil them, Whitman uses a blank with an upper and lower half. In the upper half go all the vital statistics: name, address, age, where body was found, by whom reported, and so on. In the lower half, the officers are expected to write their reports. They are always dramatic, frequently hum-
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