Death Has An Escort

Death Has An Escort – Three hard-boiled stories about showgirls, heiresses, love, pleasure, blackmail and murder by Roger Torrey.

Curtains For Five (1934) – When Blyer and Olson took the case it looked like a simple divorce for one, instead of Curtains For Five.

Murder Backstage (1940) – Rawlin had been on the stage once, but he’d given up all that to become a private detective. In his acting days, women had been his chief weakness; and right now, the murder that confronted him was causing him no more trouble than the girls in the chorus!

Death Has An Escort (1942) – Give a couple of women plenty of money, turn them loose in a city where nobody knows what they’re doing, let them have all the leeway in the world to go chasing pleasure — and maybe it’ll be all right. And maybe it’ll lead to tragedy. . . .
Chapter I
Chapter II – Party Line
Chapter III – Friend of the Family
Chapter IV – Unwelcome Advice
Chapter V – Two Visitors
Chapter VI – An Invitation Outside
Chapter VII – Wrecked!
Chapter VIII – Love’s a Funny Thing
Chapter IX – In the Bag
Chapter X – A Chance for Sally
Chapter XI – A Few Letters

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. Torrey was as hard-living as his hard boiled characters. He died in 1946 of acute alcoholism and organ failure, in the arms of his long-time mistress.

Death Has An Escort contains 18 illustrations.