This story originally appeared in the Airship 27 anthology Black Bat Mystery Volume One in 2010, and was released in a revised edition as a standalone e-book by Timepiece Press in 2015. The
Black Bat investigates a theft aboard a zeppelin. One of the suspects
is reformed ex-con Rowland Clark. The Bat’s assistant Silk Kirby
scoffs at rumors of a “crime college” in upstate New York.
However, after Clark seemingly commits suicide, the Bat reveals the
crime college does exist, and Clark was rehabilitated there. Clark’s
murderer proves to be Kobold, a former member of the group of German
adventurers known as the Alle-Männer. The
Crime College was founded and run by Doc Savage, of course. Ostensibly a group
of adventurers from the German pulps, the Alle-Männer
(German for “All-Men”) were actually created by Salmon, and also
appear in his forthcoming novel All-Men:
The Shadow-Line.
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