John,

You are right on target...the picture of the cut down Colt M1917 is on page 38 of Chic's book. It belonged to Detective Ganio. It is described as having a Colt New Service cylinder and latch, shortened grip frame, barrel cut to 2.5 inches, ramp front sight and rear sight built up to provide a target type picture. It's shown with a set of stag grips and a Tyler grip adapter.

He carried it with a "hot" load of 10 grains of Unique behind a 280 gr. semi-wadcutter.

It is properly described as a "compact Monster".

Bob