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From: The Shadow, Xitli God of Fire, 12/1/40

HOOK MCGUIRE GIVES A BOWLING LESSON
by George Allan Moffat

The door to the small frame house was open. It swung lazily back and forth in the
night breeze. There were no lights in the front of the house, but a small window
at the rear was lighted.
Detective Hook McGuire walked up on the porch and stared at the open
door. His face was worried as he walked through the door and into the dark
living room. He managed to find his way to a rear hall and to the one room that
was lighted.
When he entered this room, a small laboratory, an old man was working at an
experiment on a long table. The old man didn't look up; he was too intent on his
work. He didn't seem to hear the detective enter.
"I'll see that you have some kind of a police guard, professor," Hook McGuire
said. "You leave all your doors open, yet don't hear a man when he enters."
Professor George Minton swerved at Hook's voice, but smiled with relief
when he saw who his visitor was.
"Hello, Hook!" he said affably. "I'm just completing my last experiment with
your new resin. It is going to revolutionize the bowling game."
"Let's forget about my resin," Hook said. "You are working on an experiment
of gunpowder that will revolutionize war. There are a lot of foreigners in this
country that don't want war revolutionized by the United States. You can't liveЧ"
"Tut, tut, Hook," the old professor laughed. "I am safe here, and let's talk
about your resin. I find that by mixing a solution of purgatic acid with it, it will
cause a change in the resin and improve its power to grip anything by fifty
percent. I'll have my experiment finished tomorrow."
Hook McGuire looked at his watch. He was late now, and he had to report to
headquarters.
"I'm sending some cops up here to watch your place," he said, turning to walk
out of the door. "I'll drop in tomorrow night to see the final result of our new
resin."
Hook McGuire walked out of the house. He jumped in his police car and
drove away. He was looking back at the white frame house, when he came to the
turn in the street.
Professor George Minton was one of the famous chemists of the country, a
strange and eccentric character, who preferred to work alone and unsung in his
little home at the edge of the city.
For years, he had been a close friend of Detective Hook McGuire, the famous
bowling detective and the city's bowling champion.
It was the professor's intense interest in Hook and his bowling hobby, a hobby
that wasn't received with enthusiasm by hard-boiled Chief of Police Ryan, that
caused the professor to try to develop a new type of resin.
But Hook wasn't thinking about bowling or the new resin the professor was
perfecting. He wasn't thinking of the ribbing he would get from Chief Ryan for
wasting his time on anything pertaining to bowling. Hook was thinking about the
unprotected old professor and the experiment he was making that might change
all warfare.