Crime Must Pay the Penalty #38

Bill Payne walks out of a North Carolina prison in 1930 with grand schemes and a grudge—he's determined to hunt down his former partner Gillin and make him pay for the years Payne spent behind bars. When violence and betrayal lead Payne back to prison, he emerges years later with a new plan: a string of jewel heists orchestrated with help from a dance-hall girl named Millie, which quickly spirals into an armed prison break and a desperate flight across the South with federal agents closing in. As Payne's criminal empire grows more violent and chaotic, the biggest manhunt in the region's history begins to close around him.

Thomas Dun terrorizes medieval England as a master of disguise, using his ability to contort his face and body into countless forms to rob and murder across the countryside—and now the desperate Sheriff and even the King himself must find a way to stop a criminal who could be anyone.

August Doaks languishes in prison with his girlfriend Connie, counting the days until they can break free—and when opportunity strikes, he makes his escape from Michigan State Penitentiary with a daring plan to spring her from a women's reformatory in Louisville. What follows is a desperate crime spree across the Southwest and a frantic chase through New Jersey that tests whether two fugitives on the run can stay ahead of the law.

William Garner, a Navy deserter turned criminal, launches a brutal spree of robberies and murders across Kentucky and Florida, eluding capture through cunning disguises and desperate measures. As police close in on "The Florida Fox," Garner finds himself cornered at Miami Station with nowhere left to run. This hard-edged crime tale from 1954 traces one desperate man's collision course with justice.