Underworld #6

When the slick Polka Dot Gang strikes a swank nightclub on July 5th, 1942, the cops are stumped—their leader is a master of disguise who moves through the city changing faces faster than the robbery detail can track. Detective work leads Police Captain Humes and his men closer to the truth, but the gang's boss remains one step ahead, orchestrating each heist with cunning precision and a signature calling card. As the gang recruits new muscle and tensions rise over a dangerous secret, the investigation tightens around a woman whose real identity could crack the case wide open.

When a fatal accident at the Crest Country Club raises suspicion, Lieutenant Nestle discovers that a seemingly stray golf ball tells a far deadlier story—one involving a concealed crossbow, sabotaged helicopters, and a mechanic operating under a false identity. As the lieutenant pieces together threatening phone calls, mysterious oil slicks, and competing helicopter businesses, he uncovers a web of murder and conspiracy that reaches far beyond the golf course.

When Jerome Cappe humiliates Floyd Gilberts at a nightclub, the vengeful Gilberts plots a murder that looks like a robbery gone wrong—but Detective Lieutenant Zika smells a setup. As Gilberts attempts to turn the tables during his arrest, Zika's trap springs shut in a way neither man expected. A clever crime-and-consequence tale where one misstep unravels an otherwise tidy frame job.

When innocent Bret Mason is arrested for an armored car robbery he didn't commit and sentenced to life, his successful brother Greg remains mysteriously absent—until a chance discovery in prison reveals a devastating truth that binds the two sons in a tragedy neither can escape. Warden Johnson witnesses how family loyalty collides with justice in this tale of mistaken identity and hidden crimes, where the real criminal and the wrongly convicted are bound by blood to a law greater than any courtroom's verdict.

Right after striking it rich in the Texas oil fields, partners George Bachus and Tim Lane find their success shadowed by mystery and danger—George grows increasingly paranoid, a worker dies in a derrick accident under suspicious circumstances, and the arrival of a charming woman and an old acquaintance from George's wartime past only deepens the tension. As secrets unravel and loyalties are tested, Tim must navigate a web of espionage and betrayal that threatens everything they've built.

When a desperate man on the run from black market rivals stashes fifty grand with Cappy for safekeeping, he thinks he's bought himself a ticket out of the city—but Cappy has other plans. In this taut crime tale, greed and betrayal collide with a fatal miscalculation that leaves a detective spotting the one detail that cracks everything wide open.

When Harry Curtiss is found dead in his locked office—door bolted from the inside, no other way out—Inspector Reis faces what he calls a perfect puzzler: a locked-room murder that demands solving the means before naming the killer. As Reis interviews the secretary Miss Gayles, the partner Jay Raymond, and the Curtiss and Raymond brothers, a tangled web of financial desperation and professional resentment emerges, complicated by the discovery of a suspiciously timely manuscript on a nearby desk.