Crime Does Not Pay #91

When Chip Gardner is hired to prove that Eddie Speer's innocence—just thirty-six hours before his execution for the murder of Byron Hayne—the private eye must unravel a tangled case of campus rivalries, family loyalty, and a crime that may not be what it seems. Tensions between Eddie and the charming but ruthless Hayne had reached a boiling point, and now Gardner races against the clock to find the truth before time runs out.

When the ambitious Letty Jones lands a job as a governess at the wealthy Quarles Manor, she and her ruthless partner Jock LeRay see their perfect opportunity—until Letty's circumstances change in unexpected ways. Now Jock wants more than his original cut, and the stakes of their dangerous game shift in ways neither of them anticipated. In this true crime tale, greed and desperation set the stage for a deadly reckoning at Newgate Park.

Twin brothers Pete and Tony Cotti build a ruthless protection racket empire, squeezing money from terrified dry cleaners with Pete's brutal humor masking their cold efficiency. When a frame-up and a deadly coincidence trap them in a web of their own making, the brothers find themselves on a collision course with justice—and each other. A hard-hitting crime tale about two small-time operators who discover that greed and violence carry a price tag none of us can escape.