Select Detective #2

Born in Kansas City with an obsession that turned deadly, Johnny Malone shoots his way from a middle-class home into a criminal spree across America, learning that violence solves every problem—until his gun-happy ways catch the attention of the law. As his easy money finances a lavish life and a girlfriend who demands the finer things, Johnny's trigger finger keeps twitching, and his past sins begin to close in.

Mark Dorgan, the sharp private investigator, takes on a baffling case when cash mysteriously vanishes from a major company despite police surveillance and every precaution—and his investigation leads him from the office floor to a dangerous game of misdirection involving the U.S. mail system. When a suspicious package and a deadly attack put Dorgan on the trail, he must piece together connections between theft, murder, and an elaborate scheme to move stolen money overseas. With danger closing in from all sides, Dorgan races to expose the real culprit before the criminals slip away clean.

Lemmy Kent commands the airwaves as the voice of the crime drama "Murder on the Air," a show that's making perfume sales soar—until his sponsors fire him for his reckless personal life and demand for a raise. When one of the perfume manufacturers turns up dead after a mysterious fall from a window, Kent finds himself entangled in a deadly scheme that mirrors the very crimes he dramatizes on the radio. The stakes turn razor-sharp when he's lured into a trap designed to pin the murder on him.

At 21, Arthur "Ripper" Mallon was a championed middleweight fighter idolized across his neighborhood—until a wave of armed robberies and murders swept through the district, and Detective Winston's investigation eventually points toward someone with a pug's face and a criminal mastermind's cunning. When the D.A. finally tracks down a cab driver who witnessed the gang's getaway, the trail leads back to the last person anyone expected, forcing Mallon into a desperate final fight he never saw coming.

Detective Ted Palmer tackles a $50,000 bank robbery using the police laboratory's cutting-edge scientific equipment—examining charred evidence under ultraviolet light and analyzing paper fragments with a photo-microscope to uncover a conspiracy that reaches far beyond the vault. As Palmer closes in on the truth, he discovers that the case involves more than just a clever heist, and finds himself cornered by desperate criminals with everything to lose.

A crook named Slugs Moran plans a daring heist on the Heflin Fur Company safe, but when a mysterious rival steals the loot right out from under him, he has to play detective to track down the culprit. With his crew's help, Slugs uncovers the truth—and realizes he may have outsmarted himself.