Winterbotham: Murder Isn't Funny

Mike Lanson, crime reporter for the Gazette, was told by his editor to follow this ad which appeared in their classified section. But the advertiser had already been picked up by the FBI for questioning—and instead Mike found murder. This in turn led to Mike’s getting fired from the only job he knew how to do. Mike knew that the murderer was to be found in the strange neurotic world of comic-strip writers and artists. To find the tie-up and get his job back, he’d have to plunge himself deep among those madhouse mentalities—that is, if the killer didn’t pin him to his murder board first.