Crime Smashers #6

Dan Turner, the Hollywood detective, attends a film shoot at Acme Studios where diving champion Glory Wayne is filming a dangerous diving sequence—but someone has been sending her death threats. When Glory is found dead after a dive gone wrong, Turner must sift through the suspects on set to uncover whether her death was a tragic accident or calculated murder.

Sally the Sleuth and the Chief set a clever trap for a gang of arsonists who've been torching suburban homes for insurance money—posing as a desperate homeowner to catch the criminals red-handed. When the gang locks them in the burning house, Sally and the Chief must fight their way out through the inferno to bring the fire-bugs to justice. A thrilling case where our detective duo turn the tables on some dangerous crooks.

Ray Hale, a sharp young newspaperman, stumbles onto a dying woman in a deserted street—only to find her body vanishes moments later. Determined to unravel the mystery, Hale tracks down the story behind her death: a bank robbery, a hidden fortune, and a criminal recently released from prison. As he digs deeper into the case, the trail leads him back to the very house where it all began, where danger and a shocking secret await.

Police Inspector Madson sends his resourceful secretary Gail Ford undercover as a magazine interviewer to investigate threats against publisher Jerome Burke—but when she returns to retrieve a forgotten purse, she discovers Burke murdered in his office, and a silenced gun mysteriously planted in her own bag. As Gail pieces together clues from a threatening letter and a missing manuscript, she identifies the real killer among Burke's own staff and pursues him across the rooftops of the old studio building in a desperate race against time.