Police Against Crime #9

Detective Sergeant Dan Coffey and his partner Fred Parker respond to an armored car robbery that yields half a million dollars—but the real break comes when Coffey goes undercover in the state penitentiary to infiltrate the gang responsible, only to find himself trapped in a deadly prison escape. Racing to stop the criminals and expose their connection to the heist, Coffey must survive long enough to bring down the ringleader Frenchy Degay and his crew.

Detective Lt. Dan Coffey and his partner Fred Parker catch a high-profile murder case when millionaire playboy Reggie Fairchild is found dead in his Park Avenue penthouse—apparently knocked unconscious and smothered. With a stolen safe, a suspect butler harboring a criminal past, and a Broadway actress's alibi hinging on a film studio visit, the detectives must sift through clues and carefully constructed stories to find who really killed Fairchild. The case grows murkier as evidence points in unexpected directions, and Coffey begins to wonder if everyone involved is being truthful about their whereabouts that fateful night.

When Duncan Stuart's Caribbean vacation turns into an emergency house call, the police doctor diagnoses a rare tropical disease that unwittingly exposes him to a dangerous smuggling operation—and the criminals holding his patient won't let him leave the island alive. Forced to treat the gang's ailing boss while held prisoner on their hidden base, Stuart must use his wits and medical knowledge to orchestrate an escape from modern-day pirates who've decided he knows far too much to ever set foot on solid ground again.