Dead Scream - The Flatfoot Adventures of Alvin Hinkey

PERIL PRESS presents:
The Flatfoot Adventures of ALVIN HINKEY
4 Correspondent Tales of Murder from the Pages of
10 STORY DETECTIVE
by Joe Archibald

10-Story Detective, February 1945
Alvin Hinkey:
SMOKE SCREAM
by Joe Archibald
Hambone Noonan, Hinkey’s flatfoot chief, usually hooked for free anything he wanted, such as pushcart bananas. But when Hambone lit up a black market stogie he’d lifted from a cadaver’s cigar case, it was up to Hinkey to pay the murder-written tobacco bill.
5300 Words

10-Story Detective, April 1945
“Alvin Hinkey” Yarn
CURSED EDITION
by Joe Archibald
Alvin Hinkey, the understudy flatfoot, would rather do his research in a beer-parlor than a book-hall. But when Hinkey borrowed a crook-book from the library, he seemed slated to drink in its sinister wisdom only out of a Roscoe's muzzle.
5100 Words

10-Story Detective, January, 1947
DEAD LETTER OFFICER
by Joe Archibald
When Alvin Hinkey, the harness bull Hawkshaw, connected two loose-end skull crackings to get a spine-tingling crime circuit, he forgot to cut himself out of the hot-spot hook-up.
5200 Words

10-Story Detective, October 1947
HOT SPOT ON THE AIR
by Joe Archibald
Flatfoot Hinkey stumbles onto the right answer in a quiz program where a corpse cops the jackpot and the D.A. acts as master of ceremonies.
5800 Words

This edition includes the illustrations from the stories as well as the covers to the issues of 10 Story Detective that first published these stories.