Crime Smashers #5

Sally the Sleuth is invited to a masquerade ball at Mozart Hall, but when she arrives in a rented harem costume, she discovers a woman in an identical outfit has been murdered—a killing meant for her. Racing to uncover who wanted her dead and why, Sally traces the plot back to Nick Moretti, the labor racketeer she's scheduled to testify against before the grand jury, and his hired killer still wearing the devil costume from the ball. With The Chief and the police closing in on Moretti's headquarters, Sally must outwit the gangsters and bring both the killer and his boss to justice.

Reporter Ray Hale is covering a murder case when an elderly woman, Mrs. Morrison, is found strangled in her home—but the investigation takes a troubling turn when a fleeing grocery robber matches the suspect description given by the victim's daughter, Pamela. As Hale digs deeper into the case, his instincts tell him something doesn't add up, and he uncovers a deception that could send an innocent man to his doom.

When a maid turns up dead at a swanky hotel—poisoned, then staged as a suicide—Inspector Madson plants his secretary Gail Ford undercover as a replacement to investigate. Working the case from inside the Swerdna suite, Gail discovers a sinister ring with a hidden needle that may be the murder weapon, setting her on a collision course with dangerous secrets.