Crime Does Not Pay #105

When gangster Gotto muscles his way into the Green Rose gambling house demanding payment, he sets off a chain reaction of greed and betrayal that spreads through the criminal underworld—each crooked operator realizing they're bleeding money upward to the syndicate boss B.J. Meenin, and wondering if there's a way to keep more for themselves. As Gotto recruits others to question Meenin's authority and cut him out entirely, the real reckoning begins.

Carlton Doane is plagued by a recurring nightmare in which his relatives drag him toward a forbidden room on the third floor of a house he's never seen—but somehow knows intimately. When a doctor's prescription and a chance romantic encounter seem to cure him of the dreams, Carlton agrees to visit his fiancée's family estate, only to discover it's the very house from his nightmares, and the relatives he thought he'd killed in his dreams are waiting for him. As Carlton is led inexorably toward that fateful third-floor room, the line between his subconscious fears and waking reality begins to collapse in terrifying fashion.

When volunteer fireman Pete Ames travels to New York City to reconnect with his estranged brother Jerry, he discovers that Jerry has built a fortune through organized crime—and is now facing deadly enemies determined to settle old scores. A confrontation leaves Jerry dead, and Pete becomes a key witness to a crime with no shortage of suspects; the police hope a public appeal will draw out the real killer, but fate may have other plans in store.

When a father and son are shot down during a gas station robbery on Route 301 in New Jersey, the dying father manages to catch a crucial detail—a license plate number—before it's too late. What begins as a brutal crime becomes a hunt for justice, as the pieces slowly fall into place to expose the killer. This tale of revenge served cold shows how even the smallest clue can unravel a murderer's plans.