The Perfect Crime #27

Detective Steve Duncan catches a lead on the unsolved Safe-Way armored car robbery when a potential witness is gunned down—but not before muttering a cryptic name: Kellett, a criminal supposedly dead for eighteen months. When the witness's sister becomes a target herself, Duncan and Lieutenant Grimshaw dig into the dead man's past, tracing a connection through an undertaker whose operation seems far too rough around the edges. As the case unravels, Duncan discovers that sometimes the perfect crime is one where nobody knows the real players are still in the game.

A bank president frames a crew of desperate men—hired fresh from prison—to rob his own bank while wearing masks of his face, hoping to cover up embezzled funds and silence a bank examiner. But when the mastermind "Mallory" orchestrates his own clever double-cross, the scheme unravels in ways its architect never anticipated. In "The Bandits With My Face!" greed and vanity collide in a 1952 crime tale where the perfect cover-up becomes the perfect confession.

Eddie Conlon's luck seems unbeatable—every crime falls perfectly into place, every obstacle melts away. But when he and his partner Lou Marlow hole up after a bank heist to split their take, Eddie's charm turns deadly as greed and paranoia spark a violent confrontation. What begins as a fortunate score unravels into a twisted game where fate itself becomes Eddie's cruelest opponent.