The Adventures of Henry Turnbuckle: Detective Comedies by Jack Ritchie (Mystery Makers)

These stories are funny! The 29 Turnbuckle tales offered here mix black humor with formula” crime stories in a hilarious twist to the hard-boiled detective tale.Turnbuckle’s cockeyed reconstructions of a murder exasperate his logical and long-suffering sidekick, Ralph, but they lead to a solution anywaymost of the time. Turnbuckle may or may not know whodunit but he’s always confident that there will soon be another murder.