Crime Detective Comics #4

Crime Detective Comics #4 is an anthology featuring multiple crime stories. One story involves the discovery and adoption of a child from a wealthy background, with gangsters seeking to exploit the child's resemblance to a millionaire's son for ransom purposes. Another story depicts a bank robbery scheme in which two criminals plan to rob a bank by working secretly in a shop behind the vault over six weeks, using a sixth key obtained from a tool kit to access the vault during the lunch hour. "The Very Busy Dead Man" tells of the Baron of Hamburg, a notorious European thief who leaves instructions with his lieutenant Willi Schultz to conduct a series of robberies after the Baron's death by following plans hidden in six envelopes in a secret room.