Famous Crimes #51
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis anthology issue contains two crime stories from police files. "The T-Men" follows federal agents tracking down a drug combine operating through street vendors, culminating in the arrest of members including Rhuel Erdon, who receives a twenty-year sentence on June 13, 1939. The second story depicts the Dickson family's involvement in a stolen car operation and kidnapping scheme, which ends when they are caught by authorities and apprehended during an attempted escape on a boat.
Bennie Dickson, a Topeka teacher's son hungry for fast money, turns to armed robbery—and after his first conviction, he finds an unlikely partner in crime when he marries Stella Mae Irwin and trains her to become "Sureshot Stella," a sharpshooter as deadly as she is cool. Together, the married couple blazes through a string of bank robberies and car thefts, living high until their luck runs out and the F.B.I. closes in on them.
Frankie "Angles" Marlowe is a small-time operator who sees every honest enterprise as an opportunity to work an angle—and when a promising young boxer named Bell Thomason catches his eye, Marlowe hatches a scheme to build the fighter up, then force him to take a dive so Marlowe can cash in on the betting odds. But when circumstances force Bell's hand, Marlowe's carefully laid plan begins to unravel, setting him on a path that will test just how many angles he can work before the law catches up.
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