While investigating the murder of two newlyweds who were killed while on their honeymoon, Johnny begins to suspect that the crime may be connected to the pharmaceutical company owned by the dead bride's father JOHNNY HAVOC‘s main claim to fame is that he’s short. In fact, at 5’1′′, he’s got to be one of the shortest eyes around. But he sure doesn’t let it get him down–he’s a tough, cocky, unlicensed P.I. (“I’m no eye. Merely an exponent of free enterprise.”) who wears Brooks Brothers suits, a pork pie hat and one giant chip on his shoulder.But that isn’t what makes him “the private eye — with a difference.”Nor is it the constant craving for the big score or his extremely flexible set of ethics.No, it’s the pint-size redhead’s raging libido that truly lingers after reading one of his adventures. Johnny’s chief preoccupation in life seems to be satisfying his “one-eyed wonder worm” which, coincidentally, seems to do most of his thinking for him.No word yet on the height of that.

Jakes, John

Severn

1st Armchair Detective Library ed, New York, NY, 1990, ©1960

United States, United States of America

2025-08-03