Detzer, Karl "Fog Patrol"

With a German commerce raider reported offshore, New York Harbor-based Custom’s Inspector Hagan foils a Nazi plot to hijack an English freighter set to sail for Bermuda (and a waiting convoy bound for Britain) with a cargo of copper ingots. Hagan foils the plot and rescues a comely waterfront girl in the bargain. Detzer’s very real anti-German stance was certainly timely given the story’s December 1941 publication date. As with many American stories dating to this time period, the author portrays Germans as sneaky, underhanded and sadistic (it appears that the girl that Inspector Hagan rescues was about to be tortured and raped by the German conspirators) – and none too bright. Detzer’s Inspector Hagan, naturally, is portrayed in terms that would do any aspiring Boy Scout proud!