Crime Detector #3

Mike Danger, New York's toughest private detective, takes on the case of a desperate young woman whose brother has fled after a fatal confrontation at a gambling joint—but nothing about this setup is what it seems. As Mike pursues the trail from Monte Leeds' rigged card games to a remote fishing shack, he and his quick-witted secretary Velda uncover a scheme far more dangerous than a simple shooting. There's more to this case than meets the eye, and Mike's about to walk straight into trouble.

Red Kelly of the Missing Persons' Bureau faces a baffling mystery when a body identified as Richard Conway turns up at the city morgue—but before he can investigate further, someone tries to kill him and Conway's uncle. As Red digs into the case, he uncovers a web of gambling debts, rigged roulette wheels, and a deliberate attempt to destroy the case files, all pointing to a truth far stranger than a simple death. The trail leads him to The Golden Wheel, a crooked gambling den where nothing is quite what it seems.

When Vince Storm discovers a fatal flaw in the West Coast's supposedly unbeatable bank alarm system, he devises an audacious scheme: rob a bank, then hide in plain sight by staying in the area until the police dragnet passes. Operating under the moniker "the Flash Bandit," Storm orchestrates a string of lightning-fast heists across different precincts, using the system's own mechanics against it—but his own criminology education may prove to be his downfall. As detectives close in on his identity, Storm realizes he's walked straight into a trap of his own making.