All-Famous Police Cases #14

Silas Wentwood, a small-town huckster with big ambitions and a gift for smooth talk, claws his way up the criminal underworld by organizing robberies and systematically dismantling rival gangs. His careless streak—reckless driving, impulsive violence, a fatal overconfidence in his own cleverness—finally catches up with him when his brazen confrontation with a rival mob boss goes spectacularly wrong.

When Eddie reports his neighbor Gil Rost missing in rural Oklahoma, the sheriff's investigation uncovers a grim discovery—the farmer's body, bearing the marks of violence. As ballistic evidence points toward an unlikely suspect, the case grows darker still, raising questions about what drove a man to fear for his life on his own farm.

Queeny Ames rules the young underworld of Boston with an iron fist, and when she spots an American Legion convention rolling into town, she hatches a scheme to rob the visiting servicemen by luring them away with a friendly smile—then letting her gang do the dirty work. As the robberies pile up and Queeny's hunger for fame and power grows dangerously unhinged, Detective Harrigan closes in on the one clue the gang left behind: the criminal's own name.

Charles Arthur Floyd, the cold-blooded criminal known as "Pretty Boy," launches his reign of terror from a small-town burglary in Oklahoma and escalates through stolen automobiles, brutal murders, and audacious bank robberies across the Midwest. With ruthless partners like Red Louvet and the Astend brothers, Floyd cuts a bloody path—marking each kill with a notch on his pocket watch—until law enforcement finally closes in. This true crime story traces the rise and fall of a killer whose carefully groomed appearance masked the callous heart of a stone-cold murderer.