Crime and Punishment #45

A Brooklyn inventor's patent for a constant tension spring catches the eye of unscrupulous attorney Bernard Harmon, who sees fortune in the device—but only if the inventor's wife can be eliminated before she learns the truth. When the desperate Harmon contracts with a criminal outfit to handle the murder, he finds himself tangled in a web far more dangerous than he bargained for, as the scheme spirals across the country and back again.

The Knife of Macbeth unfolds on Halloween at Doctor Zeno's traveling spook show when a mysterious prop knife becomes entangled in a murder investigation. When a body is discovered backstage during the midnight performance, the knife that Zeno uses in his act becomes the prime evidence—and suspicion falls on several members of the show, including a stage assistant with a personal motive. A clever test during that very night's show may expose the true killer.

Paul Welles is a dedicated police academy trainee who chooses to investigate the murder conviction of Ben Wiley for his detective assignment, convinced that the circumstantial evidence doesn't add up. Through meticulous detective work—tracing a suspect via shoe size and fingerprints—Paul uncovers a lead that could prove Wiley's innocence, but he'll need to get close to the real killer to confirm his theory. It's a race against time as Paul navigates the dangerous underworld of parolees and criminals to build the case.

A father's grief turns to grim resolve when the Rod Graham mob murders his son during a lakeside escape—and then forces him to pilot their getaway boat across the Canadian border to save his own life. Trapped in a fog-shrouded Michigan night with desperate killers, he must decide whether survival means betraying everything he's lost. This true crime story explores the terrible price of revenge and the choices a grieving man will make when fate puts his tormentors in his hands.