Wolfe searches through the Dazzle Dan strips in the Gazette and takes interest in two characters, Aggie Ghool and Haggie Krool, who have a severely lopsided business relationship that favors Aggie. Later that day, Wolfe and Archie have a hidden tape recorder installed in the office, with controls in the kitchen. Wolfe has the past three years' worth of Gazette issues delivered to the office, and Lon Cohen briefs Archie on various grudges that Harry and the others have against Getz, who turns out to be the owner of the Kovens' house.
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Wolfe's detective license is suspended he secures Archie's release on bail the next day-for both the weapons charge and a material witness warrant that has been sworn out against him-and files a $1 million slander lawsuit against Harry for damaging his reputation. Cramer's decision is based on Harry's untruthful account of the day's events, in which he claims that he only invited Archie to discuss the idea of introducing a detective storyline into Dazzle Dan.
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When the police arrive, Archie makes a full statement and is then arrested by Inspector Cramer for violating the Sullivan Act, since he had been carrying Harry's gun at the time and did not have a permit for it. Archie subsequently finds Getz lying dead in Rookaloo's room, shot in the head, and Rookaloo is holding Archie's gun (now loaded) and shivering in a draft from a now-open window. Several hours later, once Harry is ready to proceed, he and Archie re-check the drawer only to find that Archie's gun has been switched for Harry's. After Archie puts his own (unloaded) gun in Harry's desk drawer, Harry becomes indecisive about his plan and asks for time to gather his courage, during which Archie meets the other five and learns of various tensions between them. These five are Harry's wife Marcelle, his friend Adrian Getz (nicknamed "Squirt" by Harry), his agent/manager Patricia Lowell, and strip artists Pete Jordan and Byram Hildebrand.Īrriving at the Kovens' house, Archie is escorted to a room with a blazing fireplace the heat is for the benefit of Rookaloo, a pet monkey kept in a cage in this room. Harry, creator of the popular Dazzle Dan comic strip, intends to have Archie place his own gun-the same model as the stolen one-in the drawer, then open the drawer in the presence of the five people he suspects of the theft and watch their reactions. "The Squirt and the Monkey" first appeared in The American Magazine (August 1951), with illustrations by Thornton UtzĪrchie Goodwin takes an unusual assignment to help cartoonist Harry Koven recover a gun that has been stolen from a desk drawer in his home office.
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