Crime Does Not Pay #81

This anthology issue contains multiple crime stories, including "Deadly Matt Cornish—Scourge of the Fishing Fleets," "The Gas Chamber Murders," "It Looked Like Suicide," and "Who Can Solve the Airplane Murders." The visible story depicts criminals plotting an elaborate scheme involving an airplane, with one criminal passing a letter to another before takeoff, while accomplices aboard prepare to execute their plan during flight. Detective Walter E. Clancy provides editorial commentary endorsing the magazine's moral force for youth and its depiction of criminal justice.