Careers in the Protective Service
Chamberlin
1963
This book was a fun browse. I found it accidentally and cracked up as this super cool detective guy in his super cool white socks collects evidence from the safe cracking crime. Question: when was the last time you heard about a safe cracker? I think this looks like the set of an Edward G. Robinson film. I am going to make a wild guess that maybe this book is a bit dated for a teen career section!
Mary
6 responses so far ↓
Chuck // June 30, 2009 at 7:32 am |
Sports coat, dark pants and white socks say it all. If for no other reason the fashion police will erase this tome from the shelves!
Stevew // June 30, 2009 at 11:24 pm |
The book is wonderfully dated by that photo. Opening safes without the combination is still quite popular. Googling “Safe cracking” gets 23,100,000 hits. There are international lock and safe cracking contests and all kinds of tech to open them from filed fingertips, drills, cutting with welding rods to computers. Of course, there is all kinds of tech by the safe makers too.
Andi // July 1, 2009 at 11:52 am |
I admit that I do love the cover art here. It’s really upscale for such a publication.
jamisings // July 17, 2009 at 11:06 pm |
Might make a good research tool for a kid looking to write a mystery novel set in that era.
Syl // July 25, 2009 at 10:38 am |
I thought it was a refrigerator
TF // September 6, 2009 at 12:01 am |
I own a copy of a 1957 true-crime magazine, FRONT PAGE DETECTIVE, that has an entire article profiling a safecracker, Joseph Biancolo, whose name has been COMPLETELY forgotten by history since then.