Suspense Detective #1

Three small men—Mike Carmody, Conklin, and Ginty—hatch an audacious prison escape plan at Klaybourne Penitentiary, exploiting an old pipeline that runs beneath the prison grounds to the river. After extracting the secret details from longtime inmate Pop Komelin, the desperate convicts set their dangerous scheme in motion, coordinating with allies on the outside to complete their bid for freedom. This tale of cunning, desperation, and violence explores how far men will go when trapped behind bars.

When a desperate factory worker named Walt Davos pawns his wife's engagement ring to keep her fed during a strike, a chance encounter with a stranger in a bar spirals into catastrophe. Awaking with fragmented memories and a pocketful of cash, Walt becomes the prime suspect when a pawnbroker is found murdered—and the evidence against him, circumstantial as it may be, seems airtight. Detective Holiday races against time to uncover the truth behind a mysterious bar on Jay Street and the shadowy figure Walt claims led him astray that fateful night.