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Headline Homicide - 8 Dizzy Duo Yarns vol. 3

Headline Homicide - 8 Dizzy Duo Yarns vol. 3

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PERIL PRESS presents:
The DIZZY DUO Adventures of
SNOOTY & SCOOP vol 3
8 Knee Slapping Tales of Murder
from the Pages of
TEN DETECTIVE ACES
by Joe Archibald

Ten Detective Aces, July 1945
YOUR HONEY OR YOUR LIFE!
“Dizzy Duo” Yarn
by Joe Archibald
Only nuts would think like Snooty Piper, the Evening Star’s newshound. But when a crime was as batty as the killing of Woo Woo Jopp, only Snooty could follow the cockeyed path to the business end of a badman’s Betsy.
5000 Words

Ten Detective Aces, November 1945
The Con Is Green
by Joe Archibald
Though Snooty Piper, the Beantown crimehound, usually spots the hot-seat evidence first, this time he's only got spots before his eyes. Yet that wacky reporter can even find a way to line up those visual aberrations to put a killer on the spot.
4900 Words

Ten Detective Aces, January 1946
HOT ICE SCREAM
by Joe Archibald
In his thirst for crook news, Snooty Piper set out single-handed to remedy Boston's crime drought. But the trail of cockeyed clues he left was so twisted that only the screwball himself could backtrack it to the muzzle of a killer's Roscoe.
5200 Words

Ten Detective Aces, August 1946
WHO KILLED CAUGHT ROBBIN
by Joe Archibald
Because a crook's suit looked green to a jewel-snatch witness, things looked black for Snooty Piper. For nobody but Beantown's half-baked newshound would be caught dead in such an emerald outfit—and Snooty seemed well on his way to fill that cadaver requirement.
5300 Words

Ten Detective Aces, April 1947
HEADLINE HAWKSHAWS
by Joe Archibald
The Boston bulls finally landed a real crook without Snooty Piper's crackpot assistance. And the only way left for the woozy newshound to regain face was to change his name to Smith and reserve a room at the morgue.
4600 Words

Ten Detective Aces, January 1948
THE BELLE TOLD
by Joe Archibald
Snooty and Scoop, those Beantown newshounds, scented something strange about that landlady's rub-out. But before they could nose out the culprit's trail, their old menace, Iron Jaw, put the bite on them.
5700 Words

Ten Detective Aces, March 1948
WRITE THIS WAY FOR MURDER
by Joe Archibald
Snooty Piper, that screwball newshawk, writes a whodunit that would be criminal to publish. But his interest in fascinating fiction turned into a real-life terror tale printed in blood.
5700 Words

Ten Detective Aces, May 1948
Dizzy Duo:
HAYSEED HOMICIDE
by Joe Archibald
Snooty Piper and Scoop Binney, those sappy Beantown news-sleuths, get slated for early planting when they dig into a . . .
5800 Words

This edition includes the illustrations to all seven stories plus all 7 covers to the issues of Ten Detective Aces in which they were first published.
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