Bet On Murder – Three Stories by Roger Torrey

Bet On Murder – Three stories of kidnapping, murder, frame-ups, greed and espionage on the World War II home front.

The Bookie Bets on Murder (1945)
Gilbert wasn’t shipping his race horses for the benefit of a crooked bookie ring—not after he’d had a son killed in action. But neither did he like his daughter being kidnapped. That’s where Phelan came in—to find that even a private detective couldn’t prevent murder
Chapter I
Chapter II – Family Trouble
Chapter III – Sikes And His Merry Men
Chapter IV – Lost and Found
Chapter V – Ambush Killer
Chapter VI – Dog Eat Dog
Chapter VII – Murder Strikes Again
Chapter VIII – The Pay Off
Chapter IX – Lady Killer

The Frankie & Johnny Murder (1942)
The place was run wide open, and the soldiers loved it. Then one of them was found, brutally murdered, and the two women who were in charge knew that they must step carefully for a while or they’d be in trouble greater than they could handle

Three Women and a Corpse (1943)
I wouldn’t have known the girl from a bar of soap— but she knew me, and enlisted my aid. I should have known there was something screwy about it when she never made clear what she wanted me to do— but, they say, love is blind!
Chapter I
Chapter II – The Ladies—God Bless Them!
Chapter III – The Knife
Chapter IV – The Tell-Tale Stain
Chapter V – Proposition from the Boys
Chapter VI – The Ten Bills
Chapter VII – A Threat and a Promise
Chapter VIII – Another Kind of Money
Chapter IX – Gun Play
Chapter X – Money Hungry

Over a thirteen year period, Roger Torrey (1901-1946) turned out about two hundred and eighty stories and novellas, and one novel. Over one hundred of them were cover stories in magazines like Black Mask, Dime Detective and Detective Fiction Weekly.