28 Jan 1928
Wickedness Preferred
He couldn't help it if the girls all fell for him. But his wife certainly cramped his romantic style!
Edgar, the Detective
Edgar buys a badge and a book of instructions and starts to learn the detective business. When he and his chum accompany his uncle's hired hand and his girl to town on a load of hay, and learn that a stop at the minister's means a marriage and not a murder, the two boys are sadly disappointed.
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Edward Peil Jr. Edgar Pomeroy
Lucille Ricksen Alice Littlefield
Buddy Messinger Freddie Littlefield
Nick Cogley 
John Cossar Cordelia Callahan Marie Dunn Kenneth Earl Lucretia Harris Virginia Madison Frederick Moore Edouard Trebaol
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