Crime Must Pay the Penalty #15

Mike "Shorty" Billings, a small-time poolroom porter in 1922 New York, makes a fateful decision to steal a quarter-million dollars from his mob boss Keller—and live to spend it. With newfound capital and cunning, Shorty builds his own criminal operation, hijacking Keller's booze shipments while keeping his former boss partially paid off, but the game of double-crosses and violence spirals as both men grow wise to the scheme. Watch as this ambitious little man discovers that in the underworld, you can't outrun the consequences of your own greed forever.

Albert Long, a meek but obsessive electrical tinkerer, marries wealthy women for their money to fund his inventions—but his neglect and dangerous experiments drive each wife away or worse. When Albert sets his sights on the well-to-do Miss Pickering, his pattern of using matrimony as a means to an end takes a sinister turn that demands reckoning.

Curt Magnus rules his criminal gang with an iron fist and an unusual code: he commits crimes only on holidays, convinced this superstition has kept him alive and free from capture ever longer than any other gangster. When the police catch on to his pattern and set a trap for Labor Day, the holiday heist goes sideways, and Curt's desperate crew turns on him, forcing their superstitious boss into a job he's sworn would mean his downfall.

Trick Bronte runs a ruthless fake accident insurance racket—orchestrating everything from car crashes to arson to maximize payouts—but his empire begins to crack when he short-changes his best stunt man, Bat, leading to betrayal and a series of unintended consequences. As Bronte scrambles to keep his operation intact and silence those who know too much, fate has other plans in store for the cunning crook.