The reading room
This Is Suspense #25
This is an anthology issue containing multiple stories. "Cops 'n' Robbers" is a humorous short about two escaped convicts who encounter a police officer; their interaction plays on the classic good-guy versus criminal dynamic through comedic misunderstandings. Another story follows a gambler whose luck changes after a supernatural encounter—he discovers a mysterious hand that appears in a photograph, and when he plays cards using the hand's guidance, he wins a fortune, only to face an eerie supernatural twist. A third story features a mysterious masked man and a young girl named Diana caught in a suspenseful situation involving kidnapping and games of captivity, culminating in an ambiguous, dramatic resolution about the nature of their predicament.