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Crime and Punishment #69
This issue contains two stories. "Slave Running—1954" depicts a British patrol ship monitoring an Arabian coast to intercept slave freighters, focusing on a ten-year-old Persian boy named Omar who is sold into slavery and later escapes with help from an older slave, leading a British agent to attempt a rescue of other enslaved people. The second story features Agent Connor investigating counterfeiters who are using printing ink to produce fake currency, discovering the operation hidden in a counterfeiting plant and exposing a criminal named Lefty Condor who had previously testified at trial.