Detective Picture Stories #2
"Baffled by a Flower" introduces Speed Rush, the hard-boiled Ace of private detectives, in a 1937 thriller where a priceless diamond sparks a high-stakes chase. Written by Phil Richards and illustrated by Milt Wilcox, with a cover by Bill Allison, this early detective tale delivers suspense and action aboard a ship bound for disaster.
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Speed Rush, "hard-boiled Ace of the private detectives", is called in by Fenton, who is charged by the Rajah of Dewar to cut the famous Dewar Diamond, worth half a million dollars. International diamond thief Rocks McCool steals the gem at gunpoint, and takes Rush and Fenton aboard a ship, intending to encase them in cement and drop them overboard. But Rush disarms one of the crooks and holds the others at gunpoint until the arrival of the Coast Guard.
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