![]() ![]() Appealing to his greed and his masculinity, she convinces him to use his skills with crooked dice in a confidence game to help her separate convention-goers from their money. ![]() Now, a dozen years later, Velma recognizes Danny and renews their acquaintance. A short time later, and unbeknownst to Danny, Velma became pregnant and also left school and their home town. ![]() Danny doesn't recognize Velma, but the two of them attended the same high school in a distant city, where they were only casually acquainted.ĭanny was expelled from high school after being caught using loaded dice in an after-school craps game. Where will their greed finally take them? To the fulfillment of their dreams? Or to sudden, violent death?ĭanny Hogan, a truck driver disaffected with his job at Torgus Trucking, meets beautiful Velma Reed in a seedy Los Angeles bar where she has been working as the bartender's shill, enticing lonely men to buy drinks. As a pair they cruise the California convention circuit, hustling suckers and raking in the dough. ![]() To Fray's subsequent novel, Come Back for More, refer to The Dice Spelled Murder as a "best selling" novel.ĭanny is a master with the dice and Velma could con any man into anything. The Dice Spelled Murder, by American novelist Al Fray, was published in 1957 by Dell Publishing Company, Inc. ![]()
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