10/28 Oh, of course, we've panned the police for not getting him; that's always the game. But, personally, I won't pan them; they've done their damnedest. Scotland Yard wouldn't do any better--or any other bunch of cops that I know about." "But look here, Bill, you don't mean to tell me he'll keep on getting away with it indefinitely ?" The editor frowned. "Confidentially--I don't know," he said with a chuckle: "The situation's this: for the first time the super-crook--the super-crook of fiction--the kind that never makes a mistake--has come to life--real life. And it'll take a cleverer man than any Central Office dick I've ever met to catch him!" "Then you don't think he's just an ordinary crook with a lot of luck ?" "I do not." The editor was emphatic. |