Black Murder

Black Murder – Four hard-boiled stories of greed, robbery, black market bootleggers and cold-blooded murder by Roger Torrey.

Life—or Death? (1940) – A bullet stood between the happiness of his two friends and his own death. John Morgan, being the sort of a man he was, made the only choice possible

Three Dead Men (1940) – Joe Walters finds his man and the missing money— but he can’t find anyone to pin the rap on!
Chapter I – Judas Pinch
Chapter II – Self-defense
Chapter III – Circumstantial Evidence
Chapter IV – Everything in Line
Chapter V – “Gold Is Where You Find It”

Black Murder (1944) – Danny had been in hot business before. But he wouldn’t go back now—even to escape ruin—because he had two brothers in the service. But sometimes when you want to leave the black market alone, it won’t let you alone
Chapter I
Chapter II – The Set-up
Chapter III – The Madhouse
Chapter IV – Hell to Pay
Chapter V – Inside Job
Chapter VI – Smart Money
Chapter VII – Guarding Sonny
Chapter VIII – Three-Time Killer

Cop Killer (1943) – Up to now Wilson had been strictly small time. But blasting a cop put him in the big boy class. And since the only charge for which the law wanted him was wife desertion, his toughness became even harder to understand

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.

Black Murder contains 21 illustrations.