Police Comics #105

T-Man Pete Trask goes undercover as a Berlin taxi driver after a small-time thief's murder points toward the spy ring run by Anton Luderdorf and his associates. Posing as Herr Rausch, Trask uses American cigarettes and street smarts to work his way into Luderdorf's circle while Colonel Blake's forces close in from the outside. What begins as a promising break in the case takes a dangerous turn when forces beyond Trask's control start moving in the shadows of occupied Berlin.

When a crime boss vanishes without a trace, Inspector Denver refuses to let the case go cold—even as months stretch into a year. When the river finally surrenders its grim secret, Denver sets a dangerous psychological trap, using circumstantial evidence and calculated revelations to corner the man he suspects of the murder. With only fragments of cement, an old wooden tub, and a trail of coincidences, can the inspector force a confession from a killer who's betting he can't be proven guilty?

Detective Alan Sykes arrives at the studio of candid photographer Peeping Tom Brink, who's been murdered—and three suspects, all with reason to hate him, are under suspicion. When Sykes notices something odd about the darkroom's signal lights, he realizes the answer to the case has been hidden in plain sight, and a clever deduction based on color leads him to unmask the killer.

Patrolman Nicholas Serson becomes convinced that the young man condemned to die for a jewelry store murder is innocent, but his desperate pleas to the Governor fall on deaf ears with only hours to spare. When a dying criminal's confession points to a real suspect, Nick takes an extraordinary and dangerous gamble to prove the truth before it's too late. "The Heart of a Hero" asks whether a cop's duty to justice sometimes demands choosing between the letter of the law and what he knows is right.

State Trooper Dan Leary investigates a baffling hit-and-run that leaves wealthy Tom Boston dead at the bottom of a canyon—but the phantom car that forced him off Route 13 seems to have vanished without a trace. As Leary pieces together an impossible puzzle where no vehicle could have escaped the narrow mountain road, he uncovers a scheme far more cunning than a simple accident. With his wits and determination, the trooper races to stop a killer before they can strike again.