The Perfect Crime #28
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free# The Perfect Crime #28 (September 1952) The issue opens with "The Perfect Crime," a prison break story in which a butcher named Jimmy and an elderly man called Tully attempt to escape from custody by overpowering guards and fleeing the prison grounds, relying on wind to cover their scent from tracking dogs. Following their escape, the two criminals plan to hide out, with Jimmy expressing confidence in their scheme while Tully fears recapture. The story includes an editorial section addressing various confidence games and cons used to defraud the public, explaining short cons and the "top soil gag," along with an appeal for reader letters describing other criminal schemes for future publication.
Steve Duncan travels fifteen hundred miles to visit his old friend Jimmy Palmer at an isolated Rocky Mountain lodge, only to find himself and Jimmy under siege by a sniper with a rifle. As the two men hunker down in the lodge, Jimmy reveals that mysterious hoodlums have been trying to force him out—and Steve begins to suspect the killers aren't after the property itself, but something buried beneath it. With his car destroyed and the phone line cut, Steve hatches a dangerous plan to turn the tables on their attackers and uncover what's really worth killing for.
A criminal mastermind named Tony Cardo assembles a crew to pull off the ultimate score—a million-dollar heist of an armored car—armed with a key that promises to make the impossible possible. But as the perfectly timed robbery unfolds with military precision, escaping the police with their prize, the gang discovers a shocking truth about what's really inside those money bags. "The Most Impossible Heist" proves that in the criminal underworld, there's always someone playing an angle you didn't see coming.
Two ex-cons, Dirk Mason and Al Reed, track down their old pal Jimmy, who's gone straight working for a wealthy man named Tully—and they want him to help them steal the fortune Tully keeps hidden behind his guard dogs. When Jimmy reluctantly agrees to get them past the hounds to save the old man's life, the heist seems to go off without a hitch, but the criminals have a final, deadly surprise in store for their former friend.
Bert Parker and Herm Lowney have found an easy score: stealing parking meters under cover of darkness, then fencing the loot through a local crook named Willie Toner. But when Toner demands too steep a cut, the desperate thieves resort to violence—and one moment of brutal carelessness sets off a chain of events that proves there's no such thing as the perfect crime.
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