Crime and Punishment #54

District Attorney Ralph Douglas has already dismantled Murder Incorporated, but one killer remains at large—the pathological Oley Slagg—and Douglas won't rest until he's behind bars. When Douglas's star witness against Slagg is silenced on a subway platform, the D.A. must find a way to bring the cold-blooded murderer to justice before his trial date arrives and the case slips away entirely.

Who Met the Assassins? Two professional killers—Joe Raeder and Slug Martin—have built a lucrative operation eliminating witnesses against underworld defendants, living comfortably in what they believe is a risk-free existence. But when they take on a job to intimidate a witness named Bernie Dahl, their careful arrangement unravels in ways they never anticipated. This hard-boiled true crime tale from Crime and Punishment #54 shows what happens when criminals assume their luck will hold forever.

When a florist becomes an unwitting accomplice to the mob, a detective must pose as Carlo Dennis's naive nephew to flush out the killers who gunned him down in his own shop. Working undercover alongside the flower shop's sole witness, Toni Mayne, the officer soon discovers that his supposed weaknesses as a cop might be exactly the edge he needs to outsmart a ruthless crime syndicate. "Send No Flowers" is a taut 1952 crime tale where nothing—and no one—is quite what they seem.