Library › Crime Does Not Pay #106
The reading room
Crime Does Not Pay #106
Crime Does Not Pay #106 This issue contains two stories. In the first, struggling lawyer Ellis refuses to defend criminals despite financial hardship, maintaining his ethical principles even when tempted by a client offering money and bribes. In "The Case of the Deadly Doll," Sergeant Clay Boyd of the New York Police Force investigates a series of arsons occurring in spring 1949 at loft buildings, discovering they are connected to a single professional firebug; the investigation leads Boyd to pursue a fleeing suspect to Farnum's Fine Furs on 28th Street, where the case takes a dark turn involving murder when the body of Joe Curry is discovered in a ditch, revealing a complex criminal conspiracy.