Crime Does Not Pay #70

When two sisters visiting from France vanish without a trace, private investigator Chapman picks up a cold trail that leads him to a resentful uncle harboring a decades-old grudge over a family inheritance—and a ruthless plan to claim what he believes is rightfully his. As Chapman methodically unravels the mystery across continents and years, he must outwit a cunning killer determined to stay one step ahead. This true crime story, based on one of the pre-World War era's most bizarre murders, pits dogged detective work against an opponent willing to cross any line to escape justice.

A prominent Southern Texas lawyer's respectable facade hides a darker truth in "Edward Daley"—when his marriage becomes unbearable, he devises what he believes is the perfect murder, only to discover that fate has a cruel sense of irony. This tale of ambition, deception, and cosmic comeuppance reveals how even the cleverest criminal can fall victim to circumstances beyond his control.

When a private secretary fails to show up for work in Hackensack, New Jersey, it sets off a chain of events that leads Bergen County Chief of Detectives Michael Orecchio and his team to the home of a murdered widow, Mrs. Dorothy McCready, in Mahwah. As Orecchio methodically reconstructs the crime—examining the scene, analyzing evidence, and piecing together the facts—he works to answer the fundamental questions every homicide detective must solve: when, how, and who.

When a series of mysterious accidents plague Front City's gleaming Tydall Towers, Detective Lieutenant Holmes is called in to investigate—only to find the office building's reputation shadowed by whispers of a vengeful ghost haunting the thirteenth floor. As deaths mount and a private investigator falls to a killer's bullet, Holmes must separate supernatural superstition from cold-blooded murder, pitting his detective skills against an adversary who uses fear itself as a weapon. Can you solve "The Haunted Skyscraper Murder Case" before the lieutenant unmasks the real killer behind the building's reign of terror?