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Crime Must Pay the Penalty #31 (1953)

Ace Magazines [1940s-1950s] · 1953 · 36 pages

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Contains 4 stories
The Case of the Bribed Athletes
7.66 pp · crime

Big Bull Craig, a washed-up boxer turned racketeer, runs a vicious sports-fixing operation that spans from basketball point-shaving to boxing, and when young middleweight contender Billy Byron refuses to become his puppet, Craig turns to kidnapping Byron's girlfriend Kate Rogers to force the fighter's hand during a crucial bout. As Byron faces an impossible choice in the ring that night, the stakes spiral into violence and desperation in this hard-boiled crime tale from 1953.

Murder's Mouthpiece
8 pp · crime

James Blaisdell is a brilliant criminal defense lawyer with a twisted secret: he's the mastermind orchestrating the very crimes he defends his clients for, using his legal expertise to spring guilty men and enslave them to his criminal enterprise. When a small-time crook named Blackie Rolfe becomes his unwilling pawn after acquittal, Blaisdell's scheme spirals into an ambitious crime wave—but his carefully constructed house of cards may finally be cracking.

Hideout of No Return
7 pp · crime

Charlie Casey walks out of Leavenworth determined to go it alone—no gang, no snitches, no return to prison. But a freak meeting in Florida sets him on a darker path: a hideout in the Everglades where fugitives disappear, and Casey sees the perfect angle to turn it into a thriving protection racket. As his operation grows and money pours in, Casey dreams of getting out clean—until an old associate from Chicago shows up with questions about a man who never came back.

Death Rides the Railroad Heist
7 pp · crime

Mike Saunders' bitter resentment of his railroad gang job leads him down a dark path when a confrontation turns deadly, landing him twenty years in prison—but a hardened criminal named Ace Hudson offers him a way out through a violent jailbreak. Reunited on the outside with Hudson and his associate Louie Carman, the three embark on a crime spree across three states, only to find themselves cornered during an attempt to rob a railway pay car. With the law closing in and his partners falling one by one, Saunders faces a desperate choice on the railroad tracks that started his descent.

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