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PERIL PRESS presents: The DIZZY DUO Adventures of SNOOTY & SCOOP8 Knee Slapping Tales of Murder from the Pages ofTEN DETECTIVE ACES by Joe ArchibaldTen Detective Aces, March 1937G-MAN FRIDAYby Joe ArchibaldSnooty and Scoop are out to round up the rough characters who impolitely murdered Mr. Quagmyre—and they follow a clue of egg-stain instead of blood-stain.5400 WordsTen Detective Aces, July 1937Dizzy Duo:CHINA WARYby Joe ArchibaldIron Jaw loses his balance, Scoop Binney loses his sense of humor, and Sum Hooey loses his head—all because a hopped-up hatchet man begins playing chop-suey with some choice Chinese citizens.4700 WordsTen Detective Aces, April 1940Dizzy Duo:SHORT ORDER CROOKby Joe ArchibaldSnooty Piper planned to paste a new mug in the Death House album. For when Philatelist Silas Swunk took the long count, Snooty had to frame a suicide stamp to complete the Grim Reaper's collection.5100 WordsTen Detective Aces, June 1940Dizzy Duo: CONFUCIUS SLAY. . . by Joe Archibald Author of “Snooty and the Beast,” etc.Man who leave shiv in citizen’s brisket get hot seat chop-chop, yep.5400 WordsTen Detective Aces, October 1940Dizzy Duo:BANG TALEby Joe ArchibaldSnooty Piper and Scoop Binney become crime jockeys as they follow the nags to a horse- racing homicide. And to get old Abigail Hepplethwaite, the Beantown mint, out from under a first-degree rap, the Dizzy Duo ride a long-shot hunch to a bangtail fare-thee-well.5100 WordsTen Detective Aces, November 1940TAKEN FOR A BRIDEby Joe Archibald The bride is gone And the groom is glum, And Snooty gets ripe For a pistol plum.5300 WordsTen Detective Aces, February 1941SLIP SERVICEBy Joe ArchibaldAuthor of “Hit and Run-Around,” etc.When a chopper made mincemeat out of Honest Eddie Grub—the Robin Hood of Roxbury—those two screwball newshawks, Snooty and Scoop, stirred up a hot-seat concoction4500 WordsTen Detective Aces, March 1941HOW GREEN WAS MY VALETby Joe ArchibaldSnooty Piper and Scoop Binney, those two newshawk scalawags, came face to face with nobility—on a slab. But Snooty, nothing if not democratic, began to oil up the throne in the state palace—for the crowning event of a blue blood career.4900 WordsThis edition includes the original illustrations to the stories as well as the covers to the issues of Ten Detective Aces that first published these stories.
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