Crime Does Not Pay #25

Dixie Davis, a young woman caught in the crossfire of gang rivalries, finds herself entangled in a deadly power struggle between Dutch Shultz and his ambitious lieutenant, Vincent Coll. As violence escalates and alliances crumble, Dixie becomes an unwitting pawn in a brutal game where loyalty is a liability and survival depends on who’s still standing.

In the war-torn London of 1943, the heirs of the late H.P. Mongaup—four brothers and one sister—gather at their untouched ancestral mansion, where a mysterious package arrives bearing a priceless diamond. As greed and suspicion rise among them, a brutal murder shakes the household, followed by a second, even more shocking death, each with a single clue left behind. With Scotland Yard’s Inspector Beanott on the case, the survivors must confront their darkest secrets—before the next bomb falls.

In a gritty tale set in 1943 Missouri, Belle Starr—a sharp-witted and fearless woman—enters a saloon, quickly asserting her presence with sharp tongue and sharper instincts. As her life intertwines with the rough-edged Bill Reed and later the ambitious Sam Starr, she finds herself drawn into a world of gambling, betrayal, and danger, where loyalty is tested and every move could be her last.

The Deadly Fox of the Mohawk follows lawman John Carlile as he hunts Ray Sutherland, the feared outlaw known as the "Deadly Fox of the Mohawk," after Sutherland kills a man mistaken for Carlile. As Carlile tracks the fugitive through the wilderness, using clues and instinct, he must outwit a cunning enemy who knows the terrain better than anyone—until the forest itself seems to close in on him.

A clever con artist known as Walter Lee Bonville, posing as Albert Edward Ferguson, thrives by stealing mail from wealthy apartment buildings, forging checks using stolen store statements, and pocketing the difference. After years of evading capture with a string of narrow escapes, his luck runs out when he targets the mailbox of a police officer returning home, leading to his eventual arrest and sentencing.

In the tense aftermath of a prison break at Oklahoma State Prison, four inmates—Claude Beavers, Hiram Prather, Bill Anderson, and Roy McGee—seize control of the warden, Jess Dunn, and an innocent guest, using them as hostages to escape. As the fugitives flee in a stolen car, a relentless pursuit unfolds across the countryside, involving a defiant deputy sheriff, a former prison guard, and a growing force of lawmen determined to bring them down.