Famous Crimes #20

Baby Judson, a small but fierce criminal, uses a makeshift "Equalizer" to assert dominance over the larger men who mock him, beginning with a violent confrontation aboard a ship and culminating in a bank heist where he commands a gang of towering criminals. After being betrayed and captured, he faces a final reckoning with his nemesis, Big Tom, in prison, where their rivalry takes a darkly personal turn.

Hugo Pound, recently returned to live with his wealthy and critical aunt Matilda, grows desperate to inherit her fortune and escape her nagging. After a failed attempt to stage a fatal car accident, he turns to more elaborate schemes—first sabotaging an electric clock, then plotting to poison her with a deadly garden root—only to find his plans undone by her unexpected vigilance and sudden job offer that forces him into a life of labor.

Bull Tuttle, a recently escaped convict, hijacks a taxi driven by George and Emma Carter, who are returning home after a vacation. As the couple tries to outwit him while protecting their young son Buddy, they are forced into a tense game of cat and mouse across Route 9W.

In the fifth year of their marriage, Tom Hastings, frustrated by his wife Helen’s refusal to share her inherited wealth, devises a brutal plan to eliminate her. After luring her to an abandoned house on Knoll Road, he stages a false crime scene, but his alibi unravels when police discover spiderwebs from inside the house clinging to his coat—evidence that contradicts his claim of finding them outdoors.