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Crime Must Pay the Penalty #8 (1949)

Ace Magazines [1940s-1950s] · 1949 · 36 pages

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Contains 4 stories
The Human Bomb
8 pp · crime
Anton Kordo

In "The Human Bomb," Anton Kordo lives a double life as a devoted family man by day and a cunning criminal by night, his fearlessness rooted in a single, deadly secret: a vial of nitroglycerin he carries at all times. The story unfolds as his two selves collide, turning every encounter into a tense game of nerves where the line between protector and predator blurs.

Blades of Doom!
8 pp · crime; western-frontier
Jack the Ripper [Western villain]
The Man Who Talked Too Much
6 pp · crime
Ross Barton

Ross Barton was a chronic braggart whose boasts about committing crimes were always dismissed as hot air—until the day he actually took a gun and held up the factory paymaster, proving he meant every word. Now transformed into a genuine criminal mastermind leading a ruthless gang across New England, Barton sets his sights on the Hayesville Federal Reserve Bank, unaware that federal agents have been tracking his every move and waiting for him to make his play.

The Ghoulish Gambler
8 pp · crime

William Palmer's gambling debts pile up faster than his charm can cover them, but when a bookkeeper threatens to expose his embezzlement, Palmer turns to poison to silence him—only to discover that one murder is far easier to rationalize than the path it sets him on. As his desperate scheme spirals from stealing to poisoning to cold-blooded murder, each victim becomes another debt paid in blood, and each success only feeds the fever that drives this gentleman criminal deeper into darkness.

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