Public Enemies #7

Speed Slater's innovative water-injector motor gives him the edge he needs to dominate the county fair's grand prize race—a competition that will finally let him claim the heart of the woman both he and his rival Rod Dowson are racing for. When tragedy strikes on the track, Rod finds himself publicly blamed for Speed's death and suspended from racing for life, but a mysterious clue sends him and his steadfast supporter on a hunt through the wreckage for the real truth. What they uncover in Speed's damaged engine could prove Rod's innocence—if they can stay one step ahead of whoever wants the evidence buried.

A retired sea captain's double life comes to a violent end when his houseboat sinks in San Francisco Bay, but young reporter Eric suspects there's more to the story than a simple accident—especially when an autopsy reveals the captain's dog was poisoned hours before the crash. As Eric digs into the captain's mysterious nighttime trips, his shadowy visitors, and a frightened young woman with dangerous secrets, he must untangle the truth among three suspects before an innocent person takes the fall.

When a young veteran named Ted takes a job at a New York parking lot, he stumbles onto a slick car-theft operation run by his charming boss—and pays a brutal price for threatening to expose it. Desperate to find Ted, his fiancée Joan disguises herself as a boy to infiltrate the garage, armed only with a stolen newspaper clipping and a hunch that something's terribly wrong. In this 1949 crime tale, woman's intuition proves far more dangerous to the crooks than any badge.

A man in prison tells the warden how he ended up behind bars: desperate for money and caught between his love for Mollie and her dangerous scheme to steal a fortune from her ex-boyfriend, a notorious bank robber hiding out on a farm. When Mollie insists they pull off the heist together, he finds himself powerless to refuse her—but a string of misfortunes turns their carefully laid plan into a cascade of unforeseen consequences. This tale of passion, greed, and bad luck shows how one man's devotion led him down a path he never intended to take.

When Nancy Merrill becomes a nurse to honor her slain police officer brother Tim, she's assigned to care for a cantankerous patient named Mr. Blaine—only to discover through his crime scrapbook that he's the very murderer she's been seeking. Trapped in his home with her dangerous secret exposed, Nancy must find a way to stop Blaine and his gang from escaping justice while fighting for her own survival.