The Perfect Crime #17
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis anthology issue features three crime stories. "The Perfect Crime" depicts police arresting a criminal who attempted what he thought was an undetectable crime. "The Old Switcheroo" tells of Harry Winslow, a paymaster at Compton Knitting Mills troubled by chest pain, who visits Dr. Kent and later contemplates robbing himself by staging a holdup during his payroll runs from the bank. "There Is No Perfect Crime" follows criminal Zip Malone's attempted robbery of a South Philadelphia loan office, which is foiled when police arrive and he is captured. The issue concludes with Sgt. Audley V. Walsh from the Ridgefield Park Police Department addressing readers about "The Almighty Dollar," explaining how crime has become big business and urging citizens to recognize their role in fighting it.
When a fire mysteriously destroys Captain Arnold's prized motor launch during the busy vacation season, investigator Steve Duncan suspects sabotage—especially after a ruthless businessman named Lenny Simpson has been pressuring the captain to sell his seaside entertainment business. As Duncan digs deeper into Simpson's motives and the mounting "accidents" plaguing Arnold's fleet, he must uncover who's behind the destruction before another disaster strikes.
Dr. Elroy Kent treats Harry Winslow for chest pains, unaware the factory paymaster is already plotting a robbery to escape his stagnant life. With the help of his thugs Nicky Orelli and Max Hernden, Harry schemes to steal his own company’s payroll—only to find the plan spirals beyond his control.
A ruthless operator named Zip Malone has perfected a scheme: case a loan office, hire a desperate thug to rob it, then abandon him and skip town before the heat arrives. His scam works flawlessly from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia—until he recruits the wrong man for a job in South Philly, and discovers that Leech is actually an undercover lawman with a very personal reason to bring him down. Floyd Torbert pencils and inks this sharp noir tale of a con man who finally meets his match.
Mickey Blake shut down his gambling casino to avoid the syndicate's demands, but closing wasn't enough—a bomb meant for him kills his friend Tommy instead, and the gangsters keep coming. Now holed up at his ranch with his two remaining associates, Mickey watches his world collapse as the syndicate hunts them down one by one, leaving him desperate and paranoid about who he can trust. In this 1951 crime tale, a man discovers that sometimes the only escape from the underworld is the one you never see coming.
Sally Morris, the trusted payroll girl for Watson Construction Company, picks up the weekly cash delivery from Farmers National Bank—only to find herself ambushed by criminals who force her into a getaway car with their gun-wielding partner. As the police give chase through town, Sally must think fast to stop the robber before he escapes with the payroll.
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