Police Comics #106

Ken Shannon takes on his strangest case yet when a beautiful woman hires him to prevent her own murder plot—of her husband—by being clever enough to stop her before she can fool the police. Trapped at the Shanley country estate with his secretary Dee Dee Dawson, the private eye navigates a twisted weekend where nothing is quite as it seems, murder weapons are collected like trophies, and every guest has a secret reason to want someone dead.

T-Man ventures into Mexico in search of a stolen rocket ship, tracking its mysterious crash to recover a crucial tube from the nose cone. With danger lurking in the desert heat and secrets buried in the shadows, every clue brings him closer to a truth that could change everything.

Detective Alan Sykes arrives at the circus to investigate a murder—Waldo, the strongman, has been shot dead, and three suspects with grudges against him are in custody: the bareback riders Bea and Lee Doren, and Elina, the high-wire aerialist. As Sykes questions the witnesses who heard the fatal shots, a crucial detail emerges that will point him toward the killer's identity.

Officer Phil Roney has long championed young Johnny Manell, a street kid with a criminal record, believing the boy has potential worth saving—but when Roney secures Johnny a job at the very warehouse the kid once tried to rob, Johnny's temptation proves stronger than his gratitude. On a fateful night, Roney discovers Johnny conspiring with the ruthless criminal Lew Docker to steal from the warehouse, forcing the officer to confront both his faith in the boy and the hard choices that come with it.

When lifer Jake Corwin makes a violent break from state prison, Dan Leary—a state trooper who knows every family in his patrol area—volunteers to stay on duty through the night to hunt the armed killer before he can strike at the innocent people he's sworn to protect. As Leary exhausts himself searching the swamps and woodlands, the desperate fugitive seeks shelter where he least expects to find a cop with everything on the line.