Crime Detective Comics #3

Crime Detective Comics #3 is an anthology containing multiple crime stories. "The Shoplifters" is an informational text feature detailing the methods used by amateur and professional shoplifters, including sleight-of-hand techniques and trick boxes, and explaining how store detectives apprehend them. "A New Face for Leon" depicts Armand Peltzer, a gambler losing money at a Paris gambling table in 1882, who is confronted by a man named Orleau demanding payment for a scheme that ruined him, after which a detective appears claiming to investigate Peltzer's background and refusing to back his business venture.