Mystery and Crime Archibald, Joseph Stopford: Joe Archibald Sampler 5. V1. 13 May 2012

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Joseph Stopford Archibald was born on September 2, 1898, in Newington, New Hampshire to Alexander and Angelina Archibald. At the age of twelve, he had sold his first cartoon to Judge magazine. By the age of fifteen, he had begun his writing career with a prize-winning contribution to the Boston Post. Archibald attended Chicago Academy of Fine Arts before enlisting in the United States Navy during World War I.

DEATH SCOOPS A COLUMNIST

Police Detective Pat Kenna barges into a baffling kidnapping case that puts wheels within wheels of mystery in motion!

ONE ON THE HOUSE DICK

Willie Klump Must Close the Hawkeye Agency, but He Makes a Comeback as a Hotel Sleuth that Opens Everybody’s Eyes!

THE CON IS GREEN

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.

HOT ICE SCREAM

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.

MURDER IN THE WORST DEGREE

It wasn’t love that made Satchelfoot Kelly pin a rose on Willie Klump’s lapel—but he sure did his rival a favor!

MORGUE SHEET MUSIC

When Willie Klump plays Hawkshaw in a big jewel theft, it leads him to three corpses—and plenty of headaches!

WHERE THERE'S A WILLIE THERE'S A WAY

When Gertie Mudgett’s gift watch goes over the hock-shop counter, it’s time to discover what makes a killer tick!

AN ACE AND A PEAR

When Willie Klump gets mixed up in the murder of a taxidermist he has to stuff the solution down Satchelfoot Kelly’s throat!

HUBBA HUBBA HOMICIDE

When a nightclub warbler is snatched, Willie Klump is just the bird to trapthe kidnaper in his nest!

DEAD LETTER OFFICER

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.