Little Al of the F.B.I. #11

In the early 1930s, as crime waves grip the nation, J. Edgar Hoover expands the FBI's authority to tackle kidnapping, extortion, bank robbery, and murder—and the Bureau wages relentless warfare against the mobsters fueling the lawless era. When a confrontation turns violent, agents and criminals clash in a deadly shootout that defines the FBI's no-surrender approach to bringing order back to America.

When warehouses full of vital defense materials start burning across the city, Little Al of the F.B.I. and his partner Ox Collins pick up the trail of a twisted arsonist who announces each crime with violin music and taunting laughter—a criminal calling himself the Fiddler. With fingerprint evidence and a tip from an unexpected source, the agents zero in on their quarry's hideout, leading to a rooftop confrontation that reveals the criminal's desperate obsession and one final, fiery gambit.

Little Al, the F.B.I.'s toughest pint-sized agent, lands in a hospital bed after a drug-smuggling stakeout goes wrong—only to uncover a morphine operation hidden right under his nose. When he discovers the hospital staff using hollowed-out flower stems to move the dope, Little Al must untangle a web of corruption, betrayal, and danger that puts his life on the line in ways he never expected.

When Internal Revenue agents haul Basil "the Owl" Banghart into a small-town New York jail in 1932 on a liquor-smuggling charge, he crosses paths with another caged crook—the notorious Roger Touhey—and the two quickly hatch a daring escape. Once free, the sharp-shooting Banghart becomes Touhey's new enforcer, and the two criminals begin plotting increasingly bold schemes to stay ahead of the law. This gritty 1951 crime story from *Little Al of the F.B.I.* follows their dangerous partnership as it spirals toward an inevitable reckoning.

F.B.I. Special Agent Little Al Conway and his aide Ox go undercover as truck drivers to catch "The Drone," a cunning criminal who uses bee-filled explosives to hijack cargo trucks across state lines. When a blonde waitress at a diner plants a bomb-hive in their cab, the agents follow the trail to the Drone's estate, only to find themselves trapped and used as hostages by the clever mastermind. Little Al and Ox must outthink their captor and his swarms of deadly bees if they're going to stop his escape and bring him to justice.