Rip Haywire by Dan Thompson for December 30, 2019

Uh-oh Rip is really down in the dumps if he needs the whole bottle of syrup.

Good wordplay. Rip might need Cobra for this case. She always knows where to dig deep.

Is he a cross between Mike Hammer, as played by Stacy Keach, and Dick Tracy ?

Ka-BOYSENBERRY!

He’s getting close to ‘Cannon’ territory. Soon to be Nero Wolfe! Punch more, eat less!

KA-NOIR!

I’m starting to develop a taste for detective stories… Make mine a Boysenberry.

Maple’s the right choice. He still remembers that awful business up in Boysenville.

I don’t think D.T. has ever mentioned it,but is Rip a Canadian?

KA-WHODUNIT!

Detective work is best done over a stack of pancakes.

If Rip were Canadian, he’d recognize that Canadian bacon was superior to what we call bacon in this country.

My question would be real or imitation maple?

somewhere,Phillip Marlowe is spinning in his grave!