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Not The Wrong Guy

“You’ve got the wrong guy, Miss Drew!” growled Lee Henderson, grimacing in discomfort as he was pressed against the corridor wall of the shabby apartment block where he had been hiding out while Nancy efficiently tied him up. “I don’t think so,” the girl sleuth replied with a slight smile, “but if you’re innocent you’ll have nothing to worry about!”

George looked on in admiration as her friend subdued the glowering man. “How did you work out it was Mr Henderson, Nance?” she asked. “I’ll tell you once we have him safely locked in the back of our car, George.” Nancy replied briskly. “Can you bring it round the front? Mr Henderson isn’t going anywhere in a hurry are you, sir?”

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Percy Caught

“Yes, after all that,” acknowledged Samantha Sanders, the Sixth Form Sleuth, “it was Percy the gardener all the time!” Sam tightened the bonds around the subdued gardener’s wrists, while she explained to her classmates how Percy had taken every opportunity to misdirect her investigation which, because the old man was so gentle and helpful, led the 17-year old detective never to suspect she was, quite literally, being led up garden paths.

“Well, you’ve caught him now!” piped up Amanda encouragingly to Sam, whom the lower sixth former worshipped. “I certainly have!” replied the amateur detective with a satisfied smile. “And I have the evidence and the proof too. Now could one of you girls call the police while the rest of us keep an eye on this scoundrel?”

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Another appearance by the ultra-brainy and super-tough science sleuths, Jill Trent and her partner in research and crime fighting, Daisy Smythe. In this page, Jill’s invention (in this case an “element detector”) for once doesn’t actually succeed in helping the physicist detective to win the day. Yes, the murderer, Arthur Brown, whom she and Daisy have tracked down, is momentarily dazzled by the machine’s light source, giving Daisy the opportunity to jump the baddie, but he turns out to be too quick, flinging Daisy off and drawing his gun on Jill. Quick thinking as ever, the science sleuth turns to more basic tactics, knocking out the light with a well-aimed glass. Plunged into darkness, the gunman soon finds himself helpless against the furious female assault that follows (“Try to kill us, will you?” an outraged Daisy shrieks before clouting the useless Brown. “Help! Let me go!” he pleads). A sok! and a pow! soon subdue the cowardly crook. The defeated Brown is tied up by Jill and then marched to the police station where the case of mistaken identity is revealed to an astounded police lieutenant. A great example of female smarts and skill by the ever impressive scientific duo.

The page is from a Jill Trent Science Sleuth story called The Case of the Black Sheep Murder, and it appeared in Wonder Comics #13 (August 1947). It was written and illustrated by Al Camy.

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