Fight against Crime #4

Two cons fresh out of the pen—a demolitions expert named "Blast" Conlon and a small-time safe-cracker called Bugs—meet inside the prison walls and clash over their opposing views on crime's rewards, but eventually team up with big-time swindler "Slippy" Mattson to pull off a major jewelry heist. When Blast's ambitions outpace his loyalty and everyone involved starts plotting against everyone else, a simple $40 score becomes a deadly game of double-crosses and revenge that nobody walks away from clean.

Inspector "Brains" Carroway takes on a seemingly airtight murder case when two underworld figures are killed and a respectable businessman's fingerprints and belongings are conveniently found at both crime scenes—but the brilliant detective suspects the frame-up runs deeper than the surface evidence suggests. Carroway must use his keen eye for detail to uncover the real killer's motive and prove an innocent man's innocence before the law closes in. With only a peculiar heel mark and suspicious forensic findings to guide him, he races against time to expose the mastermind who orchestrated the perfect crime.

Wallace Reagan starts as a small-time punk until his girlfriend Geneva introduces him to marijuana, transforming him into a desperate, unpredictable killer who terrorizes three states in a drug-fueled crime spree. When officer Jackson is murdered in a diner, the Narcotics Squad hatches a dangerous plan: cut off Reagan's drug supply to force him into a trap, but the scheme sends the already-unstable killer spiraling deeper into paranoia and violence. It's a tense cat-and-mouse game where one man's addiction becomes the very weapon used to bring him down.

Pete Renner runs a newsstand and idolizes crooks until escaped con Lefty Conn and his gang force him into their world—first as a lookout, then as a crucial insider helping plan a bank heist. When Pete's worried father seeks help from Mike Casson, a reformed safe-cracker, they set a dangerous trap that draws both Pete and Mike deeper into Lefty's operation on the night the robbery goes down.