Crime and Justice #2
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis is an anthology issue containing multiple crime stories. "Big Double Cross" follows a character named Ben who becomes a suspect in a payroll robbery after the sheriff confides in him about the crime; Ben must prove his innocence when a bandit attempts to steal what is believed to be the missing payroll. "Crime Career Girl" depicts law enforcement's search for a missing female secretary, with a photograph as the only clue, as investigators work to locate her in a town called Laneville. Additional stories advertised on the cover include "Mad Island Murder" and other crime cases, though their full plots are not visible in these sample pages.
Don't let appearances fool you—the sweet-looking waitress Kitty Ralm has a ruthless criminal streak that starts with street muggings and escalates when she partners with ex-convict Tony Wells for a series of armed robberies across Chicago. When Wells gets arrested and fingered by the police, Kitty scrambles to retrieve her hidden cash and escape, but a clever detective spots a flaw in her disguise that leads to her downfall.
When a pilot spots the disabled yacht Seabelle drifting in the Caribbean, he finds its crew in crisis—a man poisoned by dart, the radio and engine sabotaged, and a mysterious killer blamed for the chaos. Racing to uncover the truth behind the island's supposed madman, the pilot discovers a twenty-year secret that points to someone far closer to home than anyone suspected. As tensions boil over aboard the yacht, a desperate confrontation reveals whether justice or revenge will win the day.
A desperate gang of armed robbers stages a clothing store heist and guns down a state trooper who tries to stop them, then tears across the midwest in a violent rampage. State Trooper S.S. Abney picks up their trail and pursues them relentlessly toward Kansas City, where police set up roadblocks to cut off their escape. With the bandits cornered and the chase reaching a critical moment, Abney makes a split-second decision that will determine whether these five killers face justice or slip away.
When a small-time crook named Buzz worms his way into a bank robbery with two desperate thieves, he sees an opportunity to make himself rich—and he'll stop at nothing to take it. As the gang plans a second heist to fence their haul, Buzz sets in motion a scheme of betrayal that will leave bodies in its wake and his partners facing a murder rap they can't escape. This tale of underworld treachery shows why the old saying about honor among thieves is nothing but a lie.
FBI agent Len Rawson tracks down a stolen government document through a small town called Laneville, only to discover it's in the hands of a pretty secretary named Edna Martin—who's working with a blackmail operation and won't hesitate to use a gun to protect her scheme. Rawson devises an undercover plan to retrieve the document, but he'll have to outwit both Martin and her accomplices to bring the case to a close.
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Reprinted in Astounding Stories #162 (1982), Classic Pulp #2 (2013), Classic Pulp Detectives #[nn] (2020), Classic Pulp #1 (2021)
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