Crime Fighting Detective #14

When a woman is found strangled near a New York hospital, night watchman Ed Finnerty becomes the only witness to the killer's movements—but the police need more than one man's account to close the case. Dr. Alexander Weiner, the clever bacteriologist and serologist of the Chief Medical Examiner's office, applies the rigorous methods of laboratory science to trace the killer through physical evidence left at the scene. As detectives follow multiple leads and interrogate suspects, it falls to Weiner's microscope to deliver the scientific proof that points the finger of guilt.

When a package of poisoned candy addressed to a congressman's daughter arrives from San Francisco, it triggers a web of deception that reaches the highest levels of California law—and Judge D. W. Cook of the Superior Court discovers he's become entangled in the very crime he sentenced Cordelia Botkin to life imprisonment for. This gripping true-crime tale follows the forces of law and order as they work to root out evil and expose a scandal that will shake the state legislature itself.

When Wanda Mae Cox seeks help to escape her abusive husband Austin Cox, she sets off a chain of murderous violence that tears through the small town of Ogden. Enraged and unhinged, Austin embarks on a brutal rampage, leaving a trail of innocent victims in his wake as law enforcement mobilizes to stop him. This hard-hitting crime story from 1951 documents the manhunt and its grim conclusion.

When ace city detective Larry Broderick investigates the murder of gangster Pete Ryan in Westchester, prime suspect Augie Miller claims an airtight alibi—but a discarded train ticket stub under Miller's hotel window tells a different story. Broderick must unravel how Miller pulled off what he believed was the perfect crime, all while uncovering a connection to his own father's unsolved case.