Crime and Punishment #29

A man obsessed with crafting masks becomes the center of a domestic tragedy when his estranged lover Rita Marlowe confronts him about his all-consuming passion, only to have their volatile reunion intersect with a shocking discovery at his mother's home. As secrets about inheritance and a hidden telegram unfold, Rita finds herself drawn into a web of deception and guilt that threatens to destroy her conscience. "Danton's Masks" explores how obsession and false faces—both literal and emotional—can corrupt the hearts of those around them.

Arnold Grey, an artist who's inherited a third interest in his late father's construction firm, demands his partners buy out his share for three million dollars—a sum that forces them into desperate measures. When one of the partners hires a professional killer to silence him, Grey finds himself stalked by an unseen threat, fleeing through city streets and buying a gun for protection. At a party, Grey confides his troubles to a seemingly sympathetic stranger named George Bryant, unaware of the true danger standing right beside him.

AL BATES thought he'd left his criminal past behind—twenty years of legitimate business, a family, a new identity—but a mysterious phone call shatters that illusion: his old bootlegging partner John Combes, now freed from prison, is coming for revenge. With danger closing in, Bates hires BIG TIM, his massive and seemingly invulnerable truck driver, as a bodyguard to protect his household from the threat he knows is coming. As Combes's vendetta materializes, Bates discovers that raw strength and good intentions may not be enough to stop a man bent on settling an old score.