Criminals on the Run #2

Young King Cole teams up with fellow detective Lance Martin to crack a smuggling ring smuggling stolen jewels through customs via hollow clocks—but when their investigation leads them to a suspicious clock store proprietor, the case takes a deadly turn. After Lance is found shot dead in a locked room with a mysterious face spotted at the window moments before, King Cole must unravel an impossible murder: how was the killer able to escape from a sealed house with no footprints in the snow?

Dr. Drew the Zoologist races to solve a baffling string of jewel robberies plaguing the Pelican Night Club—only to discover that the club's namesake live mascot may be the real criminal. When an ill-trained pelican becomes the key to exposing a clever smuggling scheme, Dr. Drew joins forces with Inspector Snoupe to set an elaborate trap using a disguised operative and an airborne stakeout. This adventure proves that sometimes the most cunning thieves are feathered.

Young King Cole heads West to the Bar Z Dude Ranch to track down the mysterious Polka Dot Bandit, a lone outlaw terrorizing the property and threatening to ruin Miss Tex's operation. Going undercover as a guest alongside his trusted aides Iris Norland, Ursus Graham, and Whip Steele, King sets a trap by having each agent shadow the ranch's most suspicious visitors—but the real criminal has already set traps of his own. When King closes in on the bandit's identity, a kidnapping turns the case into a desperate race against time on the open plains.