Lawbreakers #5
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeAn anthology issue featuring two crime stories. "Lawbreakers" follows police investigating a series of robberies involving fancy and unusual murder methods, with detectives pursuing leads on a criminal ring operating across multiple jurisdictions. "Scene of the Crime" recounts a sheriff's investigation into a two-year-old murder connected to the notorious Donovan House in New Jersey, where a smuggled shipment of opium leads to a hijacking at a local dump site.
Lieutenant Mac McCoy sets a trap to catch the ruthless gangster Sid Hilton after a crucial witness in a murder case vanishes and is found dead in the river. By manufacturing a rumor about a new witness, McCoy draws Hilton and his crew out of hiding—but the mob will stop at nothing to silence anyone who might testify against them. With danger closing in, it's a race to see whether McCoy's strategy will finally bring Hilton to justice, or if the gang will strike first.
Detectives Spud and Brod are chasing their first real lead in a two-month crime spree: a mysterious toothpick-chewing suspect spotted at a local diner. When a wave of coordinated robberies—each pulled off by what seems like a much larger gang—sweeps the city, the officers follow their hunch straight into a tense manhunt that leads them to an unexpected hideout. It's a classic case of wrong assumptions and narrow escapes that might finally crack the case wide open.
When a two-year-old murder at the decaying Donovan House suddenly connects to a smuggling operation, narcotics detectives race to the scene—only to find a fresh corpse and a mystery that deepens with each death. As investigators, a local sheriff, and an eccentric writer renting the house for inspiration find themselves trapped inside with a killer determined to protect the operation's secrets, the tension mounts toward a desperate confrontation. A taut crime tale where past crimes and present danger collide under one cursed roof.
A clever heist goes wrong when criminals steal a valuable Acme trailer from a truck yard using a perfectly timed con—but the FBI's keen eye for physical evidence, from footprints to paint chips and fingerprints, turns the tables fast. As agents Harding and Hamel methodically trace the thieves' movements and uncover their identities, the clock ticks down in a race to catch Robert Goddard and Bill Red Dyer before they disappear with their seventy-thousand-dollar haul.
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Reprinted in Crime and Justice #21 (1954), Strange Suspense Stories #27 (1955), Weird Planets #5
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