Crime Incorporated #3

Four convicts at Alcatraz—Floyd Hamilton, James Boardman, Fred Hunter, and Harold Brest—seize a split-second opportunity during a cement detail in 1943 to make their desperate bid for freedom, overpowering guards and fighting their way toward an improvised escape route. With the alarm about to be raised and every second counting, they must execute their plan before the entire prison descends on them. Will they make it off "the Rock," or will Alcatraz prove as inescapable as its legend suggests?

When Bill Howton is found shot dead in his garage with all the markings of a robbery gone wrong, Lt. Barvis of the homicide squad senses something doesn't add up—the scene feels staged, too convenient. As the detective digs deeper into Howton's finances and discovers a recently taken out insurance policy with a hefty violent-death clause, a peculiar detail in the garage itself catches his eye and sets him on a new investigative path.

When Chic Anson offers to buy a stolen college athletic letter from a fellow student to cover a financial jam, he sets in motion a chain of events that will entangle him with a ruthless criminal gang—and turn the very symbol of honor he coveted into a noose around his neck. As a new mob uses the forged letter as a clever disguise while staging increasingly ambitious crimes across multiple states, the investigation closes in, and Chic finds himself trapped between the criminals who need him silenced and the law closing in from all sides. This hard-hitting tale shows how one moral compromise can spiral into tragedy for everyone it touches.

June Joyce, a woman struggling to survive in Depression-era New York, crosses paths with taxi driver Tom Jadey when she robs him one sweltering night in 1940—but when chance brings them together months later, Tom convinces her to team up for what seems like the perfect crime scheme. With June sweet-talking wealthy drunks out of their wallets while Tom waits with the cab, the pair believes they've found an easy road to riches, but as the story warns, no crooked scheme is truly foolproof.

When bank manager Bill Dennis spots a familiar face at the Menter Bank window—exactly ten years after a daring daylight robbery—he immediately calls the police, convinced the thief has returned. What unfolds is a tense confrontation that ends in tragedy, but the real story emerges only after patrolman Conners' fatal shot: a note revealing that George Norton, a seemingly respectable businessman, had carried the weight of that old crime for a decade, and his return wasn't meant as another heist. In this tale from Crime Incorporated, conscience becomes the criminal's ultimate undoing.