Crime and Punishment #48
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis issue presents two main true crime stories. "Henry Darpis: Public Enemy No. 1 (1931-1935)" chronicles the crimes of Henry "Old Creepy" Darpis, a marble-shooting champion turned criminal who committed murder, kidnapping, and robbery across Kansas and Missouri before his capture. "Wrong Way Out" depicts two prison inmates, Tom Brady and Jack, planning an escape from a large penitentiary warehouse by attempting to obtain a knife or sharp object to overpower a guard, though they discover the warden's metal detection machines make their plan impossible. A third story, "Crime and Punishment," shows Pete Blair and Roy Thorn collaborating with gamblers to rig a horse race, with complications arising when a mechanic named Freddie Hendricks becomes involved in their scheme.
When racketeer George Madson fixates on Gloria, a chorus girl at "Tops" Sedgman's nightclub, his obsessive courtship ignites a deadly rivalry between two men who already despised each other. Madson's threats drive Sedgman to rally other victims of the gangster's extortion into a conspiracy, but in the escalating violence that follows, someone pays the ultimate price. This 1952 crime tale explores how greed and revenge turn a masquerade ball into a powder keg of murder and betrayal.
Jerry Norton just wants steady work after the war, but when he lands a job as a runner for a brokerage firm, he's unknowingly caught between a brutal murder and a criminal operation—and Detective Tom Pryor must uncover the truth before an innocent man pays the price. A tangled web of mistaken identity, gangster violence, and determined police work spirals around a young man simply trying to start fresh.
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