Police Comics #119 (1952)

Ken Shannon, a private eye with a past, is hired to track down a stolen emerald brooch, only to find himself tangled in a web of former convicts, a suspicious gem salesman, and a wealthy widow with secrets of her own—each with motive, and none quite what they seem. As tensions rise at the Dupree estate, old grudges flare and unexpected alliances form, leaving Shannon questioning who’s truly guilty and who’s just playing the long game.

Inspector Denver is baffled by the murder of businessman Alfred Sherwood, whose only stolen item was a pair of size nine shoes—despite valuable jewelry and cash remaining untouched. When a string of similar shoe thefts emerges, Denver traces the pattern to the Montreal Limited train, leading him and Cassidy on a cross-country chase to uncover a smuggling ring hiding diamonds in shoe heels.

In French Morocco, after the assassination of a local sheik, a mysterious Legionnaire named Ivan Petrov becomes the prime suspect in a series of escalating tensions between the French Foreign Legion and local rebels. Undercover as a new recruit, Pete Trask must navigate the brutal life of a Legionnaire while uncovering Petrov’s true identity and preventing a coordinated attack on Fort Bakir.

In "Henry Brooks," Detective Alan Sykes investigates the apparent suicide of elderly Henry Brooks, but grows suspicious when the nephew, James Brooks, claims to have seen him dead through the keyhole. Though James insists he found the body after hearing a gunshot and seeing his uncle on the couch with a gun, Sykes quickly realizes the story doesn’t add up—and arrests him on suspicion of murder.

Mike Carey, a dedicated rookie cop in a large city, grows suspicious when a car wrecked in an accident reappears days later with the same license plate—despite being declared a total loss. Following a hunch, he investigates a junkyard linked to a shady garage, uncovering a scheme where stolen cars are disguised as wrecked ones and resold using forged paperwork.