Crime Does Not Pay #112

When small-time crook Freddie Jessup testifies against his former partners Chick Berry and Ray Meyers to avoid a longer sentence, he learns firsthand about "kangaroo justice"—the brutal underworld code of revenge that turns every inmate against him. Trapped in prison with men bent on making him pay for his cooperation, Freddie faces mounting dangers from all sides, while his former partners scheme for their own deadly way out.

A mob leader with three prior convictions makes a desperate choice during a warehouse robbery gone wrong—and sets off a chain reaction that brings him and his gang under siege from law enforcement across state lines. When Lefty Hoyt refuses to face another stretch in prison, his violent bid for freedom spirals into a manhunt that traps him and his boys between pursuing detectives and their own unraveling desperation. This hard-boiled tale of crime and consequence from Crime Does Not Pay #112 shows why the odds catch up with even the wiliest crook.

Eddie Wallace is a small-time hustler who gambles away his money at the poolroom and uses his hardworking mother to bail him out—until a bookie's deadline forces him into increasingly desperate crimes with a criminal acquaintance. What starts as street mugging spirals into violence and tragedy, leaving Eddie facing a life sentence and his mother devastated by the son she tried so hard to protect. This is a cautionary tale about how the crooked path of easy money leads only to ruin.