The Press: Flynn's

Having "ransacked the world" for "every aspect of detective literature," one William J. Flynn presented his compliments to the public on the first page of the first issue of a new magazine, Flynn's, issued weekly by the Red Star News Co., Manhattan. Onetime Chief of the U. S. Secret Service, Editor Flynn promised to go "far back into the recesses of his own life for thrills and action; those early days in New York when he himself set his feet on the downtown pavements and met the shock of the lawless." All...

Want the full story?

Subscribe Now

Subscribe
Subscribe

Learn more about the benefits of being a TIME subscriber

If you are already a subscriber sign up — registration is free!