Crime and Punishment #14

When middleweight contender Lou Bailey celebrates a hard-earned ring victory at his pal's restaurant, a brutal stick-up puts the two friends on a collision course with danger—and forces Lieutenant Dan Kendall to confront a criminal conspiracy that reaches far beyond a single night of robbery. Drawn from true crime, this is the story of two men from the North End fighting to protect each other, and the price one of them pays for loyalty.

Two armed robbers attempt to crack the Mankin State Bank, but their heist goes fatally wrong when a guard opens fire—leaving one man dead and a single clue behind: a Canadian dollar bill. Inspector Arthur Beatty seizes on that detail and launches an undercover operation to track down the surviving robber, Cal Wentz, before he can slip away. It's a tense cat-and-mouse game as Beatty closes in on his quarry.

When two men vanish into the notorious Bear Skull Swamp and turn up murdered, Sheriff Mitchell investigates a baffling case made all the more sinister by the local legend—a ghostly figure that the swamp folk blame for the killings. As Mitchell and his deputies push deeper into the murky landscape to uncover the truth behind the mysterious deaths and the peculiar rituals of bear skulls left at the crime scenes, they must separate superstition from cold fact.

Two killers who murdered an elderly couple for eight dollars think they've pulled off the perfect crime—until a sharp detective's hunch and a careless mistake begin to unravel their alibi. Frank Fredly and Harold "Dunk" Blander must stay one step ahead as the noose tightens around them in this true-crime tale from 1949.