Dead Scream - The Flatfoot Adventures of Alvin Hinkey — Joe Archibald

PERIL PRESS presents: The Flatfoot Adventures of ALVIN HINKEY4 Correspondent Tales of Murder from the Pages of10 STORY DETECTIVE by Joe Archibald10-Story Detective, February 1945Alvin Hinkey:SMOKE SCREAMby 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 Words10-Story Detective, April 1945“Alvin Hinkey” YarnCURSED EDITIONby Joe ArchibaldAlvin 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 Words10-Story Detective, January, 1947DEAD LETTER OFFICERby Joe ArchibaldWhen 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 Words10-Story Detective, October 1947HOT SPOT ON THE AIRby Joe ArchibaldFlatfoot 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 WordsThis edition includes the illustrations from the stories as well as the covers to the issues of 10 Story Detective that first published these stories.