Crime Fighting Detective #17

In 1951, the Crime Fighting Detective series recounts the violent rampage of Adam "Trigger-Happy" Richetti, a ruthless underworld figure who blazes through St. Louis in 1930 with his accomplice Needles, wielding his hot rod and gun in a brutal bid to muscle in on rival Bill Boyle's liquor racket. When Richetti spots a beautiful singer named Dell Morney at a roadside café, he hatches a scheme to eliminate Boyle and claim both the girl and the territory for himself. Follow the criminal couple's desperate flight across the country as Richetti's explosive ambitions collide with the law closing in.

When a respected society woman is arrested for shoplifting, Detective Jerry turns to his mentor, the renowned criminologist Doctor Doom, convinced his girlfriend Ann Winters is innocent—and Doom's scientific analysis of tiny seeds found in the stolen furs reveals a conspiracy far more twisted than a simple theft. As Doom traces those rare seeds to a wealthy suburban estate, he uncovers that the real shoplifter is someone entirely unexpected, and the case spirals into danger when a loyal but dangerous accomplice will stop at nothing to protect his employer's secret.

When a recently pardoned convict named Rocky Bemis barges into the office of private detective King Cole claiming that everyone pardoned alongside him has been framed and imprisoned again, Cole smells a setup—until a mysterious phone call lures him to a warehouse where things turn violent fast. As Cole and his team dig deeper, they uncover a conspiracy involving a newspaper editor with a grudge and a dangerous plot that puts the Governor himself in the crosshairs. With help from his associates Ursus and Iris, Cole must race against time to stop a madman bent on revenge before it's too late.