Crime Does Not Pay #25

Dutch Shultz rises from a seventeen-year-old prison escapee to bootlegging kingpin, building a ruthless operation with ruthless men—until one of his own, Vincent Coll, grows tired of playing second fiddle and decides to take him down. When Coll's ambitions and brutality spiral into open warfare, Shultz finds himself caught in a feud he may have gravely underestimated.

A mysterious diamond arrives at the century-old Mongaup Mansion, addressed to no one in particular, and greed ignites among the four brothers and sister vying for the jewel's fortune. When one of them turns up dead—and then another—Inspector Beanott of Scotland Yard must unravel the twisted motives behind the murders before the killer strikes again. This 1943 crime mystery by Norman Maurer tests your detective skills as clues pile up and suspects multiply under the shadow of wartime London.

When her husband Bill Reed is killed over a gambling debt, a young woman named Belle Starr finds her way into the outlaw life alongside the charismatic Sam Starr, launching a campaign of robbery and extortion across Missouri. As Belle's nerve and quick trigger finger earn her a fearsome reputation, her partnership with Sam and his crew grows more dangerous—and her warnings about the men he trusts go increasingly unheeded. This true-crime tale charts the rise of a woman who traded respectability for ruthlessness in the rough frontier days.

When Deputy John Carlile sets out to capture Ray Sutherland—a sharpshooter moonshiner with a deadly reputation in Oregon's Mohawk Valley—he finds himself in a cunning game of hunter and hunted through unforgiving wilderness. As Sutherland, the "Deadly Fox," uses every trick of the forest to stay one step ahead, Carlile must match wits and marksmanship against an opponent who knows these woods like no other. This true-crime tale pits two of the West's finest shots against each other in a desperate pursuit where only one can walk away.

A small-time crook with a talent for forgery turns mail theft into a lucrative scheme—stealing statements from apartment buildings, forging checks, and pocketing the difference. From Minneapolis to Washington, D.C., Walter Lee Bonville runs his ingenious racket for years until one crucial mistake puts him face-to-face with the law, and his run of narrow escapes finally comes to an end.

When four desperate convicts at the Oklahoma State Prison plot their breakout on August 11, 1941, they seize Warden Jess Dunn and a visiting guest as hostages to force their way through the gates. But their bid for freedom triggers an all-out manhunt that pits them against determined lawmen and guards in a brutal chase across the open road. This true-crime tale captures the desperation and violence that erupts when men behind bars believe freedom is finally within their grasp.