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Authentic Police Cases #24 (1952)

St. John · 1952 · 36 pages

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Contains 5 stories
The Devil's Partners
8 pp · crime

When Police Chief Nick Dolan tries to prosecute Ray Barret's thugs for assault in Haynes City, he discovers the criminal partnership between Barret and politician Big John Anders runs too deep—intimidated witnesses recant their testimony, and the case crumbles. Dolan hatches a clever plan to drive a wedge between the two crime bosses by stirring up jealousy and resentment between them, first with their wives at a civic luncheon and then with Barret himself at his roadhouse. As the partnership fractures under pressure and Anders begins ignoring Barret's calls for help, Dolan finally sees his opening to clean the criminals out of town once and for all.

Cell-Mates
7 pp · crime

In the prison's pressure cooker of petty cruelties, Herb Maline and George Hermos torment each other relentlessly—until Hermos walks free on parole and reinvents himself as a successful fisherman in Florida, while Maline languishes behind bars, consumed by thoughts of revenge. When Maline finally serves his time and is released, he embarks on a desperate hunt to track down his old cell-mate and settle their score, stopping at nothing to find him.

Arson Is Hard to Prove
1 pp · crime

When a tenement fire kills and displaces dozens of families, fire and police investigators unite to hunt down a man spotted laughing at the scene—a suspect whose kerosene-soaked clothes and suspicious history point to a dangerous arsonist at work. As the pyromaniac boasts that his previous fires destroyed all the evidence, the detectives close in on someone whose obsession with flames has turned into a deadly compulsion. This hard-hitting true crime tale from 1952 shows how law enforcement collaboration can stop a menace before the next blaze consumes more lives.

Hotel Theft
2 pp · crime

A hotel robbery in the dark leaves victim Harry Brent with few clues—but Sergeant Grey and the police laboratory turn a single strand of hair into the key to unmasking an inside thief. With fingerprints ruled out and suspects numbering in the dozens, this 1952 case hinges on scientific detective work that transforms what seemed hopeless into a closed case.

The Dawn Gang
7 pp · crime

Three small-time crooks—Shag Milewsky, Neil Summers, and Willie Halpern—discover easy pickings in early-morning milk deliveries and turn it into their specialty: the Dawn Gang strikes at dawn when the city sleeps. But as the robberies pile up and the cops close in, Neil's nerves fray under the pressure, pushing the trio toward bigger, riskier scores that threaten to unravel everything they've built.

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