Buster Crabbe #12

When an imposter plants himself in Professor Stevens's home to steal atomic energy secrets, Buster Crabbe stumbles onto a sabotage ring plotting to destroy the Great Sands nuclear plant from within—a scheme that leads him through old mine shafts and into a deadly race against foreign agents. With help from an unexpected ally, Crabbe must stop the conspirators before they can detonate a hidden bomb beneath the facility.

When a smooth-talking drifter named Jess Small deposits his life savings at the Hillsville bank, he sets in motion an elaborate con—one that reveals him as Art the Artist, a legendary criminal who emerges from hiding only for major scores. Buster Crabbe must track the cunning crook across the frontier after a brazen armored-car robbery, but the Artist proves to be several steps ahead, having rigged the old trapper's cabin with deadly surprises. With help from the local sheriff, Buster devises a daring scheme to finally corner his clever adversary.

Whiskers Wilde spins a tall tale about entering a big game hunting contest with a $1,000 prize, where frontier hunters compete to bag the largest creature. When a murder-monster tears through town during his hunt, the judges rule him ineligible on a technicality—so Whiskers decides to outsmart them all with a clever, unexpected twist on what "the biggest game" really means.

When a bus ambushed in the San Juan Mountains leaves nearly all its passengers dead, Buster Crabbe and his partner Whiskers Wilde track six masked killers into the mountains—only to discover the crime may be far more cunning than it first appears. As evidence mounts and suspicions shift, Crabbe must piece together a mystery where the real masterminds are hiding in plain sight, and the truth could be more shocking than anyone expected.