Crime and Punishment #34

Mike Carroll, a promising young fighter from Broadway, trains for his big bout against light-heavyweight champ Johnny Trigg—unaware that his own manager, Bernie Hofer, is involved in a scheme to sabotage him. When Detective Clay Boyd discovers Hofer drugging Mike's water bottle, the truth about double-crosses, gambling debts, and corruption begins to unravel, sending the good kid down a dangerous path.

When a numbers racket boss named Hogan kills a stranger in a card game, he thinks he's solved his problem by dumping the body in a sewer—but the dead man's voice keeps haunting him, growing louder and more insistent until Hogan's fractured mind can no longer tell what's real. As the heat and guilt conspire to unravel the killer, Detective Mahoney and the police close in on a man spiraling toward his own confession.

When a freshly released ex-con named Mac Rickert joins his brother-in-law's hot car operation, he quickly rises from street hustler to ruthless operator—but his ambition turns murderous when a young customer recognizes a stolen vehicle with a deadly secret in its trunk. Detective Gordon must unravel how a car ended up in the icy river and who's willing to kill to keep the truth buried, before Rickert's desperation leads to even more bloodshed.

George Courtney thinks he's outsmarted everyone—a fugitive with a foolproof plan to escape to the French Riviera via train from Montreal, convinced that criminals like the Harris mob are simply too stupid to get caught. But as he boards his train to St. John, New Brunswick, certain that he's always "a full jump ahead of the law," the very cleverness he prides himself on may be setting the perfect trap for himself.

Special Agent Alan Kent ventures deep into the Amazon jungle with millionaire Rupert Thorndon, his secretary Dora Glenn, and Professor Peter Floyd to investigate fraudulent gold mines and uncover the truth about a man named Ramon Hidalgo. When Thorndon is found dead from a poison dart—a weapon that suggests the work of jungle natives—Kent must determine whether an outsider among the expedition is the real killer. A mystery set against the remote River and dense wilderness, where deception runs as thick as the jungle itself.