Jealous Woman Avon Murder Mystery Monthly #17

E-023: Avon Books. Very Good. 1950. Paperback. Trade PB. 8vo. Published by Avon Mystery, New York, 1950 124 pgs. Avon Murder Mystery Monthly #17. First Edition/First Printing. Wrappers worn with some shelf-wear to the extremities present (wrappers are lightly chipped and worn). Book is free of ownership marks. Stain present to the bottom edge of the text block. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Vegas is a city of lovers, but in Reno, the business is divorce. Six weeks in Reno can erase the darkest marriages, and the only question is how to pass the time—craps or roulette? Jane Delavan is a roulette woman, a stately beauty from back East who’s too classy for the motel where she’s shacked up. She’s come for a divorce, but her husband has other ideas. He wants an annulment, and in exchange offers to take out a $100,000 insurance policy on himself—just in case something happens to him before their paperwork goes through. Jane is cunning enough to make sure that, if she wants something to happen, it will. Ed Horner is the insurance agent sent to settle the agreement, and it doesn’t take long for Jane to settle him. They fall in love over twenty-five-cent roulette, and soon get a bigger score in mind. In the Biggest Little City in the World, a king-size scheme is brewing. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 124 pages .