Barry Byclops, Private Eye

‘Is he dead?’ asked the first head of Barry’s Byclops apprentice detective Joe Two-Heads and when the second one added his pennyworth Barry asked himself why Joe always asked the obvious question and when he couldn’t think of a suitable answer he somehow knew that his day would probably only get worse because they were looking at what was left of their latest client but what intrigued Barry the most was the still smouldering pungent indentation in the large palm of the middle hand of Grumpy Troglodyte and when he recognised what it was he wondered how Grumpy managed to get his hands on something he’d only seen picture-graphs of and that was The Golden Dragon amulet which had supposedly been missing for more centuries than he could shake a Phantom Flayer’s stick at and that’s when they heard the dulcet tones of the approaching mob of The Masked Harlequin Sirens.