Authentic Police Cases #17

When a five-alarm fire destroys a handbag manufacturer's business, arson investigators uncover a web of insurance fraud—but a crucial piece of evidence, an invisible code number on an unexpected victim, points them toward the masterminds behind the blaze. Detective James Neal and an investigator for the National Board of Fire Underwriters follow the trail from a small-time torch job to a larger conspiracy, racing to catch the criminals before their next target burns.

A pair of cunning forgers—Vogel and Wenzel—photograph priceless European masterpieces hidden in a German coal mine, then flee across the Atlantic with their scheme intact, selling fake paintings to wealthy American collectors under assumed names. When their fourth sale goes wrong and their cover begins to crack, they resort to murder to protect their operation, forcing a desperate manhunt that spans 9,000 miles to stop them before they vanish again.

When a thoroughbred named Pink Dahlia pulls off an impossible win at the track, racing investigator Ted Hogan uncovers a scheme to fix races—one that's already left a trail of dead stable workers. As Hogan closes in on the conspirators behind the scam, he discovers they've gone to lethal lengths to keep their operation secret, and another fix is already in motion. Can he stop them before someone else vanishes?

A gang of con artists known as the Angel Mob specializes in targeting struggling business owners with promises of help—but Willie, Joe, and Moose have bigger plans when they pass off stolen bonds to a store owner named Cole. When the bank discovers the bonds are fake and stolen from a Detroit robbery, police and the F.B.I. launch a manhunt that forces the crooks to destroy their evidence, only to find that Inspector Parks' clever laboratory work can recover what they thought was lost forever.