Law Against Crime #2

When a woman's strangled body is found near a New York hospital in 1948, police suspect a night worker named John Manos—but the case quickly unravels into a tangle of conflicting leads and missing suspects. Dr. Alexander Weiner, a skilled bacteriologist and serologist, enters the investigation armed with blood tests and microscopic analysis to separate fact from suspicion. As the evidence from test tubes and laboratory work gradually comes into focus, the true killer's identity begins to emerge from the scientific clues that witnesses alone could never provide.

When a man is found burned alive in his car on the outskirts of Rockford, Illinois, Chief Deputy Sheriff Millard Stockburger discovers a porcelain bowl reeking of gasoline and a box of matches at the scene—clues that point to a calculated murder waiting in the dark. As Stockburger and his team trace the ownership of these humble objects back through local stores, the investigation circles back to an unexpected suspect with a motive hidden in threatening letters. A bizarre crime solved by the smallest of evidence in this factual crime case from "Case of the Flaming Body."