The Perfect Crime #21

Detective Steve Duncan gets tangled up in a dangerous case when a wounded stranger seeks him out—only to turn up dead at Wesley Hospital hours later, along with another victim. When the mysterious man insists on escaping the hospital before Duncan can learn why he's in danger, Steve finds himself helping a fugitive evade both a killer with a rifle and Lieutenant Grimshaw's investigation. As they flee to an abandoned quarry, the man finally reveals his past: he's an accountant who worked five years for crime boss Buck Romaro, keeping records of his sprawling rackets—until he witnessed something that made him run for his life.

When four armed men stage a payroll robbery at the Acme Meat Plant, they leave a wounded employee locked in a freezing storage box—but Lieutenant Farrel of the homicide squad pieces together a clever deception when he notices something impossible about the crime scene. A tense tale of cold-blooded betrayal solved by the science of frost.

After five years in prison, Clyde Bishop and Otis Monte decide to combine their love of the easy life with a quick score—robbing the safe at a swank resort where they're vacationing. Their plans go sideways when they're forced to give a ride to a woman heading down the mountain, only to discover she's the hotel's house detective with a gun and nowhere to go. What starts as a perfect getaway becomes a desperate chase with the law closing in.

A habitual criminal named Bull Wickert tunnels out of North Hills Penitentiary after ten years of planning, but his bid for freedom hits a snag when he encounters an injured motorist on a lonely highway. With a stolen car his ticket to escape, Bull's carefully timed getaway begins to unravel as circumstances pull him deeper into a web of his own making.