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Punch Comics #21
This issue is an anthology containing at least two stories. "The Hamburger Mystery" by Bill Harr features detective Aloysius Suspicious and his Chinese servant Sing Lee investigating a murder at the mansion of millionaire Ebenezer Q. Geezer, where the killer is revealed to be the housekeeper Miss Draginbones, who used a carving knife as the murder weapon. "Beating the Tinhorns" by Bill Harr involves Suspicious investigating a banker named Jones whose son is in debt from gambling; Suspicious devises a scheme involving corn flakes and paraffin to trick Jones into stopping his gambling habit and sending money to cover his son's debts.