M Is For Murder

M Is For Murder by Roger Torrey – three stories of crime, corruption and murder by a master of hard-boiled crime fiction.

Justice Borrows Bullets (1937) – The tragic, cowardly finish of his pal’s career, and the spirit of a small boy who might some day meet a like fate, lashed Special Agent John Archer on to follow a microscope hunch that could earn him a fool’s name or death—or both.

Gun Trap for a Money-Killer (1938) – The trap O’Malley set for that shakedown slayer was baited with death — boomerang death!

M Stands For Murder (1944) – Playing watchdog all night in a warehouse isn’t much fun, but it’s a little different when it’s war stuff. As a matter of fact, most everything is, directly or indirectly, war stuff these days. And when it’s war stuff in a warehouse, that spells d-a-n-g-e-r.
Chapter I
Chapter II – The Lady
Chapter III – A Delicate Errand
Chapter IV – Another Friend of Duffy
Chapter V – Three in a Row
Chapter VI – Shooting in the Dark
Chapter VII – The Loot
Chapter VIII – The Wind-up

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.

M Is For Murder has 21 illustrations.