Men Against Crime #6
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThe issue contains at least two crime stories. One involves a young man named Victor whose father becomes entangled with criminals demanding money, leading to a scheme where TNT explosives are hidden in shoe paste supplies delivered through a prison connection; authorities must intervene before the explosives reach their intended target. Another story follows Joe and Louis Barrett, business partners whose insurance papers become a point of contention when Joe plans to murder Louis to make it look accidental; Joe attempts to kill Louis using a truck, but the plan backfires when Louis discovers the scheme and ensures Joe's demise instead.
Inspector Morgan confronts the arsonist terrorizing the city—only to discover it's Pete Turner, his childhood friend turned career criminal whose obsession with fire and destruction has consumed him completely. As Pete wages a desperate escape through the blazing warehouse, Morgan realizes he's facing a man so far gone that ordinary law enforcement may be the only way to stop him. Watch as two old friends clash in the flames, their divergent paths finally converging in a reckoning neither could have predicted.
Mike Corday, a ruthless building racketeer, has hidden his criminal life from his gifted son Victor for twenty years, pouring stolen money into the boy's dream of becoming a concert violinist. When Mike expands his operation into a brutal extortion scheme against construction companies—bombing buildings and then selling "protection"—his carefully maintained double life begins to crack, and the threat to his son's future grows darker. A concert program becomes the unlikely instrument of reckoning as Mike's world of violence finally catches up with him.
When two convicts escape from a Wisconsin prison with contraband smuggled inside shoe paste cans, they flee with their mastermind into the winter countryside—but their getaway plan fractures almost immediately as the gang turns on each other over a brutal bank job. As law and nature close in from all sides, this vicious crew discovers that trust among thieves is the scarcest commodity of all.
When Joe Medusa's partners keep meeting sudden, convenient ends—each one insured for a tidy sum—insurance investigator Bannon begins to suspect the "accidents" are anything but. Now Burt Winston, a war buddy newly signed into the trucking firm, finds himself in Medusa's crosshairs, and it's up to Bannon to expose the scheme before another body turns up. A tense 1951 crime story about greed, murder-for-insurance, and an investigator racing to stop a predatory partner before it's too late.
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