The Perfect Crime #19
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis issue contains two stories. "The Perfect Crime" features Steve Duncan trapping a trigger-mad killer in a "$100,000 Hoax," though the specific plot details of this story are not fully visible in the sampled pages. "Let a Criminal Overlook One Detail" follows a man who murders his uncle for a valuable ruby and inheritance, planning to shoot him and inherit his gems and money, but his scheme unravels when a stray bullet kills an innocent person. "Of Denizens of the Underworld!" depicts Sam, a crime boss, whose collected money becomes distributed through corrupt channels—funding dishonest cops, judges, politicians, and hitmen—demonstrating how blood money perpetuates criminal networks, with a specific dollar bill (serial number A 3452, 1863 N) serving as the story's focal point as it circulates through the underworld's economy.
Detective Steve Duncan takes on a case that's anything but straightforward when a wealthy financier named Nelson Woodard hires him to quietly recover a hundred thousand dollars in stolen cash—and pin a murder on the thief, a small-time criminal called Trigger Kelsey. What starts as a simple recovery job spirals into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse, with Duncan caught between a client with secrets, a killer with his own agenda, and the police closing in.
A nephew's impatience to inherit his uncle's legendary jewel collection leads him to commit murder in Jefferson's prestigious jewelry shop—but a single overlooked detail, the famous Romano Ruby, becomes the thread that unravels his carefully constructed alibi. When a detective pieces together the truth, the killer makes a desperate escape that takes a darker turn than any courtroom verdict could deliver. This 1951 crime tale proves that even the most calculated scheme can crumble over something as small as what a criminal fails to see.
A real estate salesman's dream turns into a nightmare when a crook named Vince Borden robs the Swasey Building Corporation's sample house of over three thousand dollars. Determined to settle the score, salesman Howard Breen embarks on a relentless hunt through the city's underworld, refusing to let the case go cold—until a chance glimpse on a television broadcast at a boxing match finally gives him the break he's been waiting for. What happens next proves that no criminal can hide forever.
A jewel heist sends Vince Larson fleeing in a stolen car, only to pick up the wrong hitchhiker—an escaped convict with his own violent agenda and nothing to lose. When two criminals' paths collide on a lonely back road, neither expects the twist of fate that awaits them. "The Unexpected" proves once again that no crime goes unpunished, no matter how carefully it's planned.
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