Police Against Crime #5

Detective Dan Coffey receives a bomb-rigged package at police headquarters, and when his partner nearly opens it, Coffey's quick thinking saves lives—but a patrolman is badly hurt. Now Coffey and his team must track down who sent the deadly device, following clues from bomb fragments and a threatening note that promises more violence to come. With leads pointing to a recently released criminal with a vendetta, the hunt becomes a race against time.

Private eye Grant Steel arrives at a remote hunting lodge in the North Woods after receiving a mysterious job offer—but someone wants him dead before he can even meet his employer. Strange murders have been plaguing the area, all marked by the same brutal signature: a bullet in the back, always the day after a full moon. Steel must unravel the twisted conspiracy behind the killings before the next victim falls.

Detective Dan Coffey catches a murder call at Wilson Chemicals—a night watchman killed during a vault robbery that netted not cash, but a stolen formula for poison gas. Working the case with his partner Fred Parker, Coffey discovers the theft was an inside job, leading him through a chain of wartime contacts and dead-end leads until a photograph and a tavern owner's tip point him toward a suspect with dangerous connections to the safe company itself. As the pieces fall into place, Coffey closes in on the criminals before the stolen formula can slip out of the country.

Police doctor Duncan Stuart, M.D. springs into action when a store robber collapses under mysterious circumstances, only to discover the man is carrying bubonic plague—the pneumonic form, highly contagious and spreading fast. As a second case emerges and time runs short, Stuart must use every tool at his disposal, from medical detective work to street smarts, to track down the escaped convict before an epidemic engulfs the city. A tense race against disease and time, where one doctor's expertise becomes the thin line between catastrophe and containment.