Keen Detective Funnies #10

In "Kidnapped," football star Tom Collins is snatched by the crooks Spike and Rose, who plan to sabotage his team’s big game by keeping him out of play. Faking illness, Tom waits for his chance—then takes control when he causes a crash, alerts a policeman, and still makes it to the field in time to shine.

When private detectives Kane and Abel are summoned to a millionaire's home, they discover Stuart dead under suspicious circumstances—and a web of tangled romance, a missing nephew, and a canceled solicitor's appointment that points to poison. With only motive, timing, and testimony to work with, Kane must reconstruct what happened during that fateful afternoon tea before the real killer slips away.

Detective Bill Blair investigates the brutal assault of a young boy at the Gordon mansion, only to discover that the real crime may involve a seemingly innocent toy elephant the child received from a stranger during a trip to South America. When Blair recognizes the man in a photograph, he uncovers a smuggling scheme far more sinister than a simple robbery gone wrong. This tense mystery unravels the connection between a stuffed toy, international crime, and a criminal's desperate attempt to recover his hidden contraband.

Bill Lewis and his wife Gerry are troubled by strange happenings in their inherited farmhouse—mysterious lights on the third floor and Bill's increasingly evasive behavior—until Gerry discovers the dark secret her husband has been keeping hidden behind a locked door. As threats and danger close in around them, Gerry must decide whether loyalty to her husband outweighs her duty to the law in "The Room on the Third Floor," a tense mystery by Joe E. Buresch.

In "Will of Uncle Dan," cousins Banning and Tom gather at the bedside of their dying uncle Dan, where Banning's desperate bid for the family fortune sets off a tense race against time. When Banning tries to eliminate Tom to secure the inheritance, Tom survives and races to the hospital to prevent Dan from rewriting his will—just in time to stop the final, fateful change.