Crime Files #5

When a string of robberies plague San Francisco's wealthy, Lieutenant Dan Wallace and Sergeant Flaherty discover the thieves are tipped off by someone with inside knowledge of their targets—someone moving through high society with ease. As the detectives close in, Chet Keith orchestrates each heist while posing as a charming gentleman guest, using those same social gatherings to scout his next victims and keeping his criminal world completely separate from his respectable cover.

When Eddie Whalen's mob stages an armored car robbery, the quick-thinking young hoodlum Floyd Willis finds himself left behind—but his real test comes when he's released and must choose between loyalty to the gang and the pull of his family and the girl he loves. As Willis moves through the underworld's brutal code, Detective Danning and the cops close in, setting the stage for a confrontation that will reveal what the kid is truly made of.

When kidnappers Harry and Walter Jenks shoot their way past Indiana State Trooper Clarence Harmon near Valparaiso, they trigger a five-state police manhunt that tightens around them throughout the night. As the brothers desperately search for an escape route, they discover that law enforcement has sealed off every way out—and nowhere left to run.

A botched safe-cracking job at a New York warehouse ends in tragedy when watchman Ed Hall is killed, and Dave Nichols flees into the arms of Kitty Willard—a woman so devoted she's willing to take the fall for him. As Detectives Turner and Patterson close in, Nichols's cruelty and a woman's misplaced love collide in a violent finale that proves some guys aren't worth the sacrifice.

Helen Harris was a wild troublemaker from birth—running away from reform school at fifteen, she drifted through gambling dens before turning to highway robbery at seventeen, preying on drivers she'd charm and intimidate. When a man named Jim Johnson resists her robbery attempt, tragedy strikes, and Helen finds herself hunted by police across Texas for a murder she insists she didn't commit. Discover how Helen's youth and cunning play out in court when the law finally catches up with the Hellcat.

Two escaped killers—Tony Grado and Walter Lance—flee through the rugged northwest mountains with lawmen and dogs on their trail, but Lance's ruthless survival instincts soon turn this manhunt into something far darker. As he claws his way toward the Canadian border, stealing what he needs and leaving a trail of violence, Sheriff Gordon closes in with every resource at his command. The net tightens when Lance seeks shelter at a farmhouse, forcing a desperate confrontation that will determine whether this killer outsmarts the law or pays the price for his crimes.