The Perfect Crime #24

Licensed investigator Steve Duncan's vacation takes a deadly turn when he arrives in a small town and finds himself caught in gunfire—mistaken, perhaps, for a federal agent. Stranded and curious, Duncan teams up with a local woman named Lisa to uncover the truth behind a recent murder, a shuttered moonshine operation, and a mysterious stranger who bought a farm nearby just months ago. What starts as a simple detour becomes a fight for survival when Duncan's investigation leads him straight into the hands of dangerous men with secrets worth killing for.

A confident killer frames an escaped lunatic for his murders, carefully selecting random victims alongside his real target—a man named Baranbas—to hide the crime's true motive. But when a crucial piece of evidence surfaces, the meticulous plan begins to unravel, and the police close in with nothing but a dangerous bluff. This sharp 1952 crime tale proves that no scheme, however brilliant, accounts for every variable.

Crime reporter Jimmy Street follows his nose—and his typewriter—to expose a meticulously planned train robbery that left a fireman dead and $200,000 in securities missing. When a series of hotel stakeouts leads him to suspect notorious criminal Pudge Pomeroy, Street and Lieutenant Egan set a trap to catch the killer before he strikes again. It's a dangerous game of wits where a reporter's pen might be mightier than any gangster's gun.

Two meticulous crooks, Ernie Minton and Gus Porter, pull off a carefully planned robbery at the Rex Restaurant, then hole up in a remote cabin to wait out the heat—but a chance encounter in the woods throws their partnership into chaos and sets off a chain of events neither could have predicted. What begins as paranoia and betrayal spirals into something far darker, all because of one fateful accident during hunting season.