Crime Does Not Pay #27

Mr. Crime traces the criminal rise of Pretty Boy Floyd, a charming but deadly gunman whose talent behind the wheel and with a tommy gun made him a menace across the country. After a botched early robbery lands him in prison, Floyd escapes and teams up with a gambling hall owner to launch a brazen spree of bank robberies that catches the attention of the F.B.I. As the heat closes in, this cocky young criminal discovers that even his nerve and firepower may not be enough to outrun the law.

Meet Marty Durkin, a razor-sharp gunman with an uncanny eye who seduces women across the country and eludes law enforcement with deadly precision—but when he returns to Chicago to rob a wealthy woman's jewels, the police close in with overwhelming force. As Durkin's charm and marksmanship carry him through increasingly desperate confrontations, detective work and circumstance narrow his escape routes. This taut crime tale traces how even the cleverest criminal eventually runs out of luck.

Rafael "Red" Lopez, a brutal killer with a cunning mind and inhuman strength, frames an innocent bank teller named Jack Harley for a gold shipment robbery—kidnapping Harley's fiancée and using his accomplice to impersonate him. Years later, when fate brings Harley and a reformed member of Lopez's gang together in prison, they hatch a desperate plan to hunt down the man who stole everything from them.

In 1943's Armenia, the brutal creature known as Dimiran Merraghikian terrorizes the village of Valitza with casual savagery—gouging eyes, wielding knives, and devouring meat he never pays for—until the townsfolk divide over whether to reform him or hang him. When a young woman accused of murder is arrested, Dimiran becomes obsessed with claiming her for himself, setting off a desperate chase through the mountains between the madman and a determined pursuer. This brutal true tale builds toward a reckoning none of them expected.

When George Mandel encounters a mysterious stranger collapsing from the shadows on a foggy night, he's drawn into a haunting confession: the man, Mister Destin, claims he was executed for a murder he didn't commit—his fiancée Mary's death—only to find himself given a second chance by divine intervention. Now back among the living with a supernatural purpose, Destin must track down the real killer, his former friend Grimes, before the town falls victim to a deadly gas weapon.