Police Comics #114

Ken Shannon thought he was just retrieving his own suitcase from a blonde he'd rescued at the train depot—until he opened it and found something far worse than a gift. Now the detective must untangle a deadly mix of murder, mistaken identity, and syndicate money to clear Carol Ross's name and expose the real culprits behind the grim cargo in "The Blonde with Two Heads," a 1952 mystery from Police Comics #114.

Inspector Marty Denver's suspicions are aroused when a Mexican fire truck mysteriously appears at California border fires—leading him to uncover a sinister alien smuggling operation that uses the vehicle as cover. When the smugglers discover they're being tailed and resort to jettisoning their human cargo over the ocean, Denver and his partner Cassidy pursue the killers across the border in a desperate chase that culminates in a tense showdown in a remote cave. It's a hard-boiled race against ruthless criminals who'll stop at nothing to keep their dirty secret buried.

T-Man agent Pete Trask has been trailing the communist operative Ivan Vorov across continents, and when he intercepts a mysterious package in East Africa, what he finds—odd, lumpy seeds—leads him to a brilliant botanist named Dr. Anne Blaik and a sinister jungle secret that Professor Zilsky has been guarding behind electrified fences. With something far more dangerous than bullets lurking within the compound, Trask and Blaik will have to rely on wits and nerve to survive what awaits them in the dense African wilderness.

Officer Bill Grimes has built something special with the Beavers, a boys' club that keeps kids off the streets and on the right track—but when a ruthless gambler tries to fix the club's basketball tournament by bribing young Timmy Baker, Grimes must act fast to protect his boys and stop the scheme. With the big game that night, Grimes walks a careful line between keeping Timmy safe and catching the crook before violence erupts.