Crime Must Pay the Penalty #42

Jo-Jo Ryan's gutter gang terrorizes the city with armed robberies, gang fights, and random violence—until a botched stickup leaves a man shot and a cop named Ben Wagner determined to bring them down. When Ben's own brother Lennie gets caught in the gang's crosshairs, the line between family loyalty and justice becomes dangerously blurred. A hard-hitting 1954 crime tale about the clash between a lawman and the young thugs destroying his neighborhood.

Dan "Angles" Hatton lives up to his criminal reputation with an elaborate scheme: he uses a fake police call to trick a finance company manager into handing over cash, then strategically feeds the real authorities false information to throw them off his trail. But when a traffic accident lands Angles and his gang in an Arizona jail, he discovers one final angle that keeps them hidden in plain sight while their robberies plague the town.

On the construction site of 360 Matson Avenue, workers keep dying in what look like accidents—but detectives Jack and Ralph, working undercover among the crew, suspect they're murders tied to a vicious kickback racket run by the foreman Mat Harper. As the body count climbs and the racketeers grow suspicious of the newcomers, the two cops must navigate a deadly web of labor graft, violent enforcers, and increasingly desperate criminals before the conspiracy unravels completely.

Preston Burke's obsession with becoming a movie star drives him to crime—first a nightclub robbery to fund his Hollywood dreams, then four years in prison where his delusion only deepens. Released and determined to take over the underworld's operations, Burke leads a ruthless gang across the Midwest, leaving a trail of murders and earning the attention of law enforcement as the notorious "Gold Coin Killer." As detectives close in on the movie-mad criminal, Burke's unhinged pursuit of stardom pushes everyone around him toward disaster.