Crime Smashers #3

Gail Ford goes undercover at the Hawk Lake Inn resort, posing as a smuggler's courier to flush out "Spade" Samson, a mysterious dope handler whose face remains unknown to the authorities—they only know he bears a distinctive playing-card birthmark on his chest. As suspicious characters circle and tension mounts, Gail must use her wits to separate the real criminal from the decoys before the mission spirals dangerously out of control.

When Dan Turner visits a Hollywood film set to meet with actress Kitty O'Keefe, a stunt involving a crashed plane takes a deadly turn—O'Keefe dies during the scene, her body showing signs of poisoning rather than accident. Turner must untangle the mystery of her death, knowing that O'Keefe was a blackmailer with plenty of dangerous enemies on the crew. The detective sets a clever trap to flush out the killer hiding among the cast and crew.

When Judge Gray faces a ruthless political opponent willing to use fake photographs and dirty tricks to force him out of an election, Sally the Sleuth goes undercover to expose the frame-up before it's too late. Working her way into Pete Murdock's operation, Sally must identify the photographer behind the scheme and stop a criminal conspiracy that threatens to put a stooge in office and allow corruption to flourish. It's a race against the clock as Sally uncovers blackmail, kidnapping, and a plot that could cost an honest judge everything.

When a wealthy broker turns up dead on a tenement roof in the poor section of Midvale, newspaper ace Ray Hale of the Clarion spots a suspicious connection to a showgirl named Angela Green and her bookie brother Joe Verdi. Working the angles—from the pool halls to the victim's own mansion—Hale pieces together a puzzle of blackmail, jealousy, and rage that points to a killer no one saw coming.