Police Against Crime #2

Joe Hanley, a homicide sergeant, races against time to stop a vicious killer stalking the city—a madman who leaves taunting messages at crime scenes and seems driven by an inexplicable compulsion to kill. When a pattern emerges in the killer's choice of victims, Joe's investigation takes a terrifying personal turn that puts everything he loves at stake.

Detective Paddy Shea of Homicide finds himself pulled into a deadly investigation when a series of bombs begin appearing across the city—at the waterfront, a railroad terminal, and beyond. Partnered with Sergeant Vic Rollins of the Bomb Squad, Paddy must trace the cardboard boxes and chemical evidence to track down a mysterious suspect before another explosion tears through the city. It's a race against the clock as the two men close in on their man and face a harrowing final confrontation in a building packed with volatile chemical supplies.

A neighborhood cop named Mike Butler earns the wary respect of his beat through steady vigilance—stopping street games and petty violations to keep order—but his true mettle is tested when serious crime strikes: muggers in an alley, a gas leak threatening to level a storefront, and a murder plot unfolding behind apartment walls. As Butler moves through the night protecting his community, his quiet dedication begins to change minds, even among those who once dismissed him as just another cop walking his rounds. This 1954 crime tale captures the grit and quick thinking demanded of the men who guard the neighborhoods we call home.

Tony Fallo claws his way up from a desperate stint as a mortuary helper to become a ruthless criminal operator, using his knowledge of the undertaking trade to eliminate rivals for kingpin Walter Rusek—until his own scheming to take over the empire backfires when Rusek returns with vengeance on his mind. In this 1954 crime tale, ambition and betrayal collide in a mortuary parlor, where the cost of grabbing power proves far steeper than Fallo ever imagined.