Detective Story Magazine, January 7, 1928

Detective Story Magazine, January 7, 1928 This weekly issue contains one novelette and two serials alongside five short stories. Johnston McCulley contributes *The Stool Pigeon*, a novelette about criminal informants. The first of three installments of *Printed Peril* by Christopher B. Booth forms part of the fiction lineup, while Edgar Wallace's *Sinister Halls*—a six-part serial—appears at part five. The short stories include *Big-Nose Charley, Goober Grabber* by Charles W. Tyler, *Discordant Bells* by Frederick Ames Coates, Roy W. Hinds's *A Steal for Health*, Leslie Gordon Barnard's *A Brave Coward*, and *Stumbled In* by Howard E. Morgan. Non-fiction articles cover *Drugs and Crime* (treatment of addicts, part two) by Dr. Ernest M. Poate, and *Famous Criminal Lawyers*, featuring Sir Edward Marshall Hall. Miscellaneous departments include crime reports, articles on fingerprinting and detective dogs, and handwriting analysis.