TROUBLESHOOTER

Good masculine stuff in authentic cases, human emotions, foibles, and personal enthusiasm for the job which never dulls a belief in the final goodness and toughness of manking, as Traver, county prosecutor of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, unfolds the story of how he became a specialist on all fronts. In a mining country, with a population of Finns, Cornishmen, Swedes, Norwegians, Italians, French, Irish, Scots and Germans, his experience encompassed the whole calendar of crime — and the result is excellent story telling. There is autobiographical material, too, of his German grandparents and parents, of his own education and a Chicago interlude, of his early mistakes in the prosecutor's office, of his campaigns, his personal life disrupted by the exigencies of office. There are the difficulties of getting evidence, of preparing cases, of trials, jurors, judges, witnesses, of law violations and criminal law — all the warp and woof of ten years' tenure. In the telling it is always human, often humorous, and frequently absorbing reading.