Authentic Police Cases #4

A ruthless killer named Ray Sutherland wages a brutal campaign against law enforcement in Oregon's Mohawk Valley, murdering a lawman and vowing vengeance against Deputy John Carlile, who's equally determined to bring him down. When Sutherland evades capture through cunning and violence—leaving deputies wounded and innocent lives destroyed in his wake—Carlile begins to suspect the body authorities believe is Sutherland may be a planted impostor. With winter closing in and the killer still at large, Carlile launches a desperate mountain search that could finally corner his quarry—or cost him everything.

Twenty years before this story was published, Kid Dropper prowled the East Side of Manhattan as a vicious criminal whose appetite for violence—from petty wallet cons to armed robbery and murder—caught the attention of underworld boss Monk Eastman. When Dropper's ruthless ambitions put him at odds with rival mobster Johnny Spanish, a brutal gang war erupts for control of the city's underworld. Watch as Dropper claws his way toward the top, only to discover that power in the criminal underworld comes with a price far steeper than he bargained for.

Detective Dick Starr and his police dog K-9 are drawn into a deadly mystery when a woman is brutally attacked on Moon Street, and K-9's keen senses pick up a trail that leads to a sinister discovery. As more victims fall to a vicious assailant prowling the neighborhood, Dick and his brother Tip must follow K-9's instincts to uncover the truth before the madman strikes again. With danger closing in on all sides, the detective, the boy, and their four-legged partner race to expose who—or what—lurks in the shadows of Moon Street.

When Tom Barton's stolen pistol turns up at a bank robbery, he becomes the prime suspect—and goes on the run using various disguises, earning the nickname "Masked Blackjack." Working with his kid brother Jerry, Tom pursues the real culprits across a dangerous landscape of baseball games, hobo camps, and speeding freight trains to clear his name. This taut crime story captures the cat-and-mouse tension of a man hunted by police while hunting the truth himself.

When prospectors Jess Hendrickson and Bob Burns turn up dead on the frozen river near Glenora, Constable Bullock-Webster must track a killer through the snow-locked wilderness of British Columbia before the spring thaw destroys the evidence. The investigation leads from the Vipond Brothers to Jim Smiley the cowpuncher, but the real murderer proves to be someone far more cunning—a man with stolen gold and a dangerous secret he'll kill to protect.