Crime Smashers #13

Dan Turner, the Hollywood detective, attends a ballet performance with a movie director friend and spots a talented dancer—but during the show, the performance takes a deadly turn when one of the performers is strangled onstage. With the lead dancer claiming she was knocked unconscious in her dressing room, Turner must untangle a web of impersonation and motive to discover who really committed the murder beneath the theater's spotlights.

When a society photographer seeking protection is found dead in his studio, Sally the Sleuth discovers a crucial clue on undeveloped film—a handbag with initials that point away from the obvious suspect. Following the thread of blackmail, hidden photographs, and a desperate debutante, Sally uncovers a web of secrets that the police had completely missed. Her sharp eye for detail exposes the real killer and clears an innocent woman before it's too late.

Ray Hale, star reporter for the Clarion, investigates mysterious trouble brewing in Chinatown and stumbles onto a deadly conflict between the old guard and the progressive Chinese Youth Club—one that's already claimed lives. When a young woman's desperate signal from a window points to a forbidden romance, Hale must race against time to prevent another murder and uncover the dark secret behind the "Trail of Terror."