Crime SuspenStories #3

In "Poison!", Mr. Boles attends his wife Margaret’s funeral with a smug confidence that no one suspects his role in her death—until his housekeeper’s quiet demeanor begins to unsettle him. Her every word and gesture seems to hint at a knowledge she shouldn’t possess, pushing him to concoct a desperate plan to turn the tables by framing her for attempted murder.

In "The Giggling Killer," a desperate man pushed to the edge by relentless nagging finds himself drawn into a chilling game of mimicry, staging his wife’s murder in the eerie style of a notorious serial killer. But when he picks up a mysterious hitchhiker after the deed, his carefully constructed plan begins to unravel in ways he never expected.

In "Faced with Horror!", Sam and Willie’s bank robbery takes a terrifying turn when a photo of them captures their crime—leading to Brogen’s identification. Desperate to vanish, he undergoes plastic surgery, but the results are nothing like the new life he imagined.

In "Blood Red Wine!" from Crime SuspenStories #3 (1951), Old Ballo, a disgraced wine merchant, plots a chilling revenge against the critic whose scathing review destroyed his livelihood—inviting the man to his home under false pretenses, where the vintage he serves may be the last thing he ever tastes.