The Spirit #15

The Spirit #15 The Spirit investigates a case involving Madame Larna, a fortune teller whose crystal ball supposedly reveals secrets about underworld operations. When Madame Larna seeks the Spirit's help against a police campaign targeting fortune-telling rackets, she claims her crystal ball can provide evidence to shelter her from authorities. A separate storyline involves criminals attempting to frame the Spirit by using a gasoline truck, with the villains planning to steal gas and stage a hit-and-run, but the Spirit reconstructs the crime using evidence from the truck's tangled hoses. Additionally, a plot centered on extortion involves a threatening letter demanding midnight payment to a man named Kahler, with a character named Maurice orchestrating the scheme; the Spirit arrives too late to save Kahler from the clock's strike at midnight, and Maurice escapes.