Fugitives from Justice #3

When corrupt union boss Muscles Magruder orchestrates a bogus strike to squeeze an honest contractor, he doesn't count on a legitimate union organizer and a determined district attorney teaming up to expose his fourteen-year reign of racketeering. As Magruder resorts to violence to protect his scheme, he sets in motion the very forces that will finally bring him to justice.

Detective Vic Flint is set to receive the prestigious Citizen John Doe Award, but his celebration is interrupted when a valuable stamp—a rare one-penny black worth thirty to forty thousand dollars—is stolen from wealthy collector Virgil Spender at the Hotel Clearedge on the very night of Flint's broadcast. When a mysterious woman found at the scene suffers amnesia and a young pickpocket named Sandra gets entangled in the case, Flint must unravel a web of theft and deception that threatens to turn deadly.

Police across the New York area hunt for the Devil Diver, a skilled burglar known for smashing through closed windows to make his getaway—until one night, a confrontation with a homeowner leaves a man shot and dying. When the trail goes cold, it's a landlady's discovery and some buried evidence that finally give detectives the clues they need to close in on Morton Fogg and prove he's far more dangerous than any jewel thief.

When a crime mob targets Tribune reporter Lawson Hunt to silence him before he can expose their racket, they devise an ingenious trap: a radio-controlled gun hidden inside a hollow tombstone lion, rigged with a photo-electric beam. Hunt must outwit both the mobsters and their deadly remote-controlled murder weapon before they can eliminate the key witness who could bring down their operation. This tense 1952 crime tale pits wits and gadgetry in a race against the clock.