Murder is the Pay-Off. Leslie Ford

"One of the beat mysteries of the year." – Providence Journal <P>When an innocent young woman finds herself knee-deep in gambling – and up to her beautiful neck in debts – there's apt to be trouble.... And trouble is what Janey Blake had plenty of. She had written a pile of bad checks. And she was fighting to keep her husband from the arms of another woman.... <P>But other people had trouble too. Doc Wemitz, for example. He was afraid of something. And apparently he had reason – for one night someone bashed in his skull.... <P> That was the same night that Janey hit her first jackpot in months – and found a gilded coin that a desperate killer would stop at nothing to retrieve.