Crime Does Not Pay #89

Private eye Chip Gardner accepts what seems like a straightforward escort job—accompanying the wealthy Sandra Drake to a fancy dinner while her jewels are on display—but finds himself caught in a carefully laid trap when he's suddenly framed for murder. With the law closing in from all sides and the real culprits making sure Gardner takes the fall, he'll need all his detective skills to prove his innocence and expose the scheme before it's too late.

When bookkeeper Sam Brewster can't pay his $2,500 debt to "Big Ed" Mowbray, the Club Lido's ruthless owner offers him a fateful gamble—double or nothing on a roll of the dice. But before the game can settle, "Big Ed" is found dead in his office, and Inspector Cassidy must sift through a tangle of suspects: a society playboy in over his head, a wanted bank robber, a jealous girlfriend, and a fired roulette operator. Can you solve the mystery before the inspector does?

When a ruthless killer named Ernie Crowder botches a loan company robbery and leaves bodies in his wake, one of his gang members—Vince Orlo—cracks under pressure and becomes a police informant, hoping to save his own skin. Crowder's obsession with silencing the squealer becomes so consuming that he throws away his final chance at freedom during a desperate prison break, willing to risk everything just to reach Orlo first.