Crime Fighting Detective #17

In 1930, Adam Richetti and Needles Harrow flee a violent ambush by Bill Boyle’s gang, using Richetti’s hot rod to crash through locked garage doors and escape. After a tense confrontation at the Bijou Theatre, Richetti, now obsessed with outmaneuvering Boyle, orchestrates a scheme to eliminate him—only to find himself entangled with Boyle’s lover, Dell Morney, whose fate becomes entwined with his own.

In a small town where a seemingly respectable young woman is arrested for shoplifting, a famed professor of criminology takes up her case, uncovering a trail of rare seeds that lead to a hidden network of wealthy criminals. As he investigates, he discovers the theft was orchestrated by a charming but dangerous woman who uses her influence and a loyal bodybuilder to cover her tracks.

Rocky Bemis, a recently pardoned convict trying to go straight, pleads with King Cole for help after being framed for a robbery at the Akme Storage Company. When a mysterious call claims Bemis’s daughter is injured, King and his partner Ursus investigate, uncovering a conspiracy tied to a fabricated newspaper story that predicted the crime before it happened.