42 Days For Murder

by Roger Torrey, A.G. Fishman (Editor)

Overview

42 Days For Murder (1938) – It takes six weeks or 42 days to get a quickie divorce in Reno. A lot can happen in 42 days.

Private detective Shean Connell is hired to clear up a divorce case in Reno, Nevada, a wide-open little town rife with an assortment of gangsters and politicians running the gambling, prostitution, dope, and, of course, "easy divorce" rackets.

42 Days For Murder was the only full length novel that Roger Torrey ever wrote. It was originally published in 1938.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798369203538
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	02/25/2023
Pages:	226
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.48(d)

About the Author

Over a thirteen year period, Roger Torrey (1901-1946) turned out about two hundred and eighty stories and novellas, and one novel (42 Days For Murder). Over one hundred of them were cover stories in magazines like Black Mask, Dime Detective and Detective Fiction Weekly.