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Murphy, Rambler. Rambler Murphy was created by Fred MacIsaac (Dick Boswell, Pete Crane, Fred Leonard, King J. Nelson, Pagneomon, Bill Peepe) and appeared in eighteen stories in Dime Detective Stories from 1933 to 1940, beginning with “Alias Mr. Smith” (Dime Detective Stories, Apr. 1933).

Addison Francis "Rambler" Murphy wanders from town to town, always getting jobs with the local newspaper, solving the crimes that he reports on, and then moving on. His case of wanderlust is one of the most pronounced in the pulps. A tall, skinny redhead, he always catches his man and always got the front page of the papers with his scoops, whether they are big city newspaper or small town one-sheets. He puts away crooked politicians, ordinary crooks, and in one story a version of the Ku Klux Klan.

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