Footprints on a Brain

by D.L. Champion. Edited by Alfred Jan & Bill Blackbeard, with an introduction. Oversized paperback, Adventure House, Silver Springs, MD, 2001. 208 pages.

This book collects the Inspector Allhoff stories from the pages of Dime Detective. In a period where most literary hardboiled detectives had to have some sort of handicap, Allhoff had a doozy. He had lost both legs in the line of duty, but still managed to stay one step ahead of the bad guys.