IT'S A GANGSTER'S PARADISE
It's a gangster's paradise. A few months ago the Solstead Act was signed into law prohibiting the public act of guffawing, cackling, giggling, chortling, yucking, or any other such verbal utterance or expulsion. Laughter has been outlawed in the states.
But you can't just get rid of laughter so easy.
Soon came the rise of the so-called Cootchie Coo Parlors which opened secretly through out the city. Hidden taverns where the rich and powerful could still go and enjoy the sweet sounds of laughter. And boot-leggers, the illegal suppliers of laughter who would resort to merciless tickle torture to extract the profitable laughter their clients so desperately desired. And with them a new class of criminals was formed. Ruthless men and women, amassing almost limitless power and wealth through the trade of outlawed laughter. They're now known as the Tickle Gangsters. And this is their story.
Betty, a young willful news reporter, is trying to get the scoop on the biggest Cootchie Coo Parlor in the city, run by the feared Fontucci Gang. But accidentally blowing her cover, the feisty reporter soon learns how these tickling mobsters extract information. They want to know who her source is - and they have ways of making her talk!
Will Betty be able to hold back against these merciless mobsters? Will she be as dreadfully ticklish as she fears? And are there other interested parties, using Betty’s ticklish screams of frenzied laughter as a well-timed distraction??
Put on those pin stripes. Grab that tommy gun. And get your gangster on!
