Crime Does Not Pay #46
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis anthology issue contains two stories. "Pepsi the Pepsi-Cola Cop" is a comedic tale featuring a horse named Pepsi who solves a racetrack crime by identifying which horses were doped, leading to the arrest of the criminals and earning the horse recognition as a hero. The second story follows Frank Egan and Joe Doran, two criminals who murder Mrs. Hughes during an insurance scam robbery; after they are caught by police and brought to trial, their fellow criminal Doran confesses, resulting in both men being sentenced to life imprisonment.
In 1917, a young Francis, orphaned and bitter, is taken in by the Crowley family—though his true allegiance lies with the man who raised him in the shadows. Years later, as a hardened criminal known as Two-Gun Crowley, he leads a violent crime spree across New York, evading police and leaving a trail of blood and chaos in his wake.
Joe Masseria, now living in retirement after his criminal empire's peak, finds himself targeted by Umberto Valentini, a rival seeking revenge for the murder of his friend Mauro. As Valentini's vendetta escalates into a deadly game of cat and mouse, Masseria is forced to flee and outwit assassins, all while maintaining a public image of innocence.
A scheming insurance agent manipulates a widow into signing over her life insurance, then orchestrates her murder with two hired thugs to collect the payout. When a chance encounter with two pedestrians leads to a police investigation, the inspector begins to unravel the crime—forcing the conspirators into a desperate, self-sabotaging plan to cover their tracks.
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Reprinted in Crime Does Not Pay Archives #7 (2014)
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