Homicide Highway
by William Edward Hayes
The cops came out of nowhere that night at Dead Man’s Dive, and maybe Jimmy Rigney was a murderer, and maybe he was a Fifth Columnist, or maybe, like his blue-eyed sweetheart claimed, he was just a trucker framed with a cargo of contraband T.N.T.!
Counterfeit Killer
by Lawrence Treat
So an old man with a police badge wanted to smash the toughest, deadliest racket in Big Town — it was a laugh, and the killers weren’t the only ones laughing, the coppers were too!
Case of the Promiscuous Corpses
by Edward Ronns
Murder in miniature — or was Craig seeing only this bloody arena and its double circle of death masks, and forgetting there’d be a genuine cadaver for every fake one?
Mortgage on Murder
by Dale Clark
They weren’t hiring-on Rookie cops now, and Nick Hurley’s wife and kid weren’t eating regular, and maybe Nick couldn’t get a tin badge but he could get a gun...
Hot Ice for Hitler
by Brent North
Blood money, it was, money to help Hitler pay for slaughtering helpless women and children — sure, I loved this guy, and I wanted to see us married and in the dough, with a little cottage of our own, and a car, and maybe later, babies — but not on blood money...
Bad Blood
by H.Q. Masur
He was a scared kid with a nervous gun, but Sergeant Frobel didn’t figure that necessarily made him a killer...
You Built a Frame for Me
by Leonard B. Rosborough
Death was offering a double feature tonight, and I was ready to see that coldblooded snake Flint Hill go, but not the frightened, soft-eyed little gun-girl.
Dead End
by William Beggarate
A hundred-to-one chance said this was another Dead End holdup, with ex-dick Duke Lafferty ready to settle for anything short of homicide!
Grapevine Vengeance
by Eric Howard
The gat-men wanted to collect for the ice, and I had twenty grand I was ready to shove, but the fools wanted corpses, not cash!
Murder by Installment
by Eric Preston
“The M.E. and the wagon,” would be Homicide’s verdict on this very dead housekeeper’s daughter, but not after this clue-crazy newshawk Martin Dering scooped the case!
