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Authentic Police Cases #23 (1952)

St. John · 1952 · 36 pages

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Contains 4 stories
Set-up for Robbery
6 pp · crime

When a desperate investment broker loses ten thousand dollars that doesn't belong to him, he turns to a crooked gambler with a dangerous scheme: stage a robbery of his wife's jewelry and split the insurance money. But when the plan goes fatally wrong and a maid is killed, an insurance investigator and detective must untangle the web of greed and desperation to bring the real culprits to justice in this 1952 crime story.

The Pier Gang
7 pp

Millions of dollars in cargo flow through New York's piers each year, but Danny Mackay and his gang have other plans—stealing what they can and selling it for a fraction of its worth. Fresh out of prison and trying to go straight, Danny gets pulled back into the life when his old associate Red Kowal offers him work, leading him deeper into a dangerous operation that puts him at odds with harbor police and his own conscience.

Murder by Accident
7 pp · crime

When an accident at the Calmers Number Five plant kills Big Dan Kelly, a factory bookie, his coworker Chick Harper inherits the numbers and betting operation—and transforms it into something far more sinister. As Harper builds his racketeering empire with ruthless methods and an iron fist, Police Chief Jackson watches and waits, refusing bribes while allowing the operation to grow, biding his time for the perfect moment to strike. Harper's greed and violence eventually push him to the edge of a crime that may finally give the chief the opening he's been waiting for.

Punchboard Profit
5 pp

Two con artists—Duke Straight and Mike Raphael—run a vicious confidence racket using patriotism as their hook, placing fake veteran charity punch-boards in small-town stores to fleece unsuspecting shop owners and customers. When a small-town detective named Bill Graven grows suspicious of their unlikely winning streak, he follows their operation across state lines to catch them red-handed. It's a tense race between the scammers and the law in this hard-hitting police procedural from 1952.

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