Crime and Punishment #30

A young paperboy stumbles onto evidence of foul play at a local pawnshop, but when he reports it to the police, suspicion falls on an unlikely suspect—and the real culprits, led by Paul Derby, work to keep their secret buried. As the investigation unfolds, Buddy finds himself caught between what he knows and a web of circumstantial evidence that threatens to send an innocent man to the electric chair.

Steve Hoxen attempted to rob a warehouse in New York, but his own poor planning became his undoing—he managed to get inside all right, but couldn't find his way back out. Sometimes the best security is the criminal's own carelessness.

A New York cop named Vic Lawson tracks Tony Fiaschetti, a deported arch criminal, to a small Sicilian town where the mobster has fled with three million dollars in stolen jewels, bonds, and cash. Posing as a bodyguard while protecting a professor conducting archaeological digs nearby, Lawson navigates a tense game of cat-and-mouse against Fiaschetti and his crew, all while the local population trembles under the criminal's corrupt influence. In "Mob In Exile," Officer Common Sense gives way to cunning strategy as Lawson closes in on America's most wanted fugitive.

Secret Service Agent Walt Zimmer investigates a deadly mystery at a traveling carnival when a man named Tex Boland is found murdered on the Ferris wheel—but not before making suspicious contacts with several carnival workers. With a murder weapon discovered near the fortune teller's tent and multiple suspects with potential motives, Zimmer must piece together the angles of the crime to identify who pulled the trigger.