Police Comics #111

Private detective Ken Shannon's quiet fishing trip takes a sinister turn when he and his secretary pull a knife-wielding corpse from the water—one that drifted from multimillionaire Lanson Dawes' private island. Stranded and drawn ashore, Shannon finds himself caught in a web of murder, blackmail, and deadly secrets, where a hot-blooded huntress named Diana Dawes becomes the prime suspect—though she may not be guilty of the crime everyone wants to pin on her. With money, jealousy, and hidden conspiracies swirling around him, Shannon has to untangle the truth before another body turns up.

Inspector Denver faces a clever protection racket when loose barrels begin destroying shops across town—and the terrified victims won't talk. Following the trail from wrecked storefronts to a salvage yard full of barrels, Denver and his partner Cassidy uncover a scheme where ruthless shakedown artists use the barrels as both weapon and warning. A high-speed chase and dramatic river rescue bring the criminals to justice, but not before the barrels themselves become the most dangerous obstacle on the road.

T-Man Pete Trask goes undercover in Paris as a tough street criminal to draw out a Communist agent recruiting assassins—a dangerous game that requires him to pose as a brawling ruffian and wait for the enemy to come calling. When a woman named Marie offers to introduce him to someone with a lucrative job, Trask thinks he's finally landed the lead he needs, only to discover that nothing in this mission is quite what it seems. With enemies closing in from all sides and a mysterious ally with a knife, Trask must navigate a deadly web of double-crosses to survive the night.

Detective Alan Sykes unveils his latest invention—a machine designed to detect murderers through their physical reactions—and tests it on three suspects in a murder case. As the machine fails to identify the guilty party through its dials, Sykes turns to an unexpected method of detection that finally reveals which of the three is truly responsible for the crime.

Officer Mike Czernak discovers Soviet spies passing atomic secrets through a matchbook, but his arrest of them becomes a weapon against him when Commissar Sadich arrives with devastating news: Mike's long-lost sister Anna is alive in a Russian work camp, and her freedom hinges on Mike's silence. Faced with an impossible choice between his sister's life and his country's security, Mike must find the courage to do what his conscience demands.