A Two-Dollar Bet Means Murder; The Unholy Alliance Between Gambling and Crime

New York: The Dial Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Near Fine in a Good jacket, unclipped ($4.50), generally toned and soiled, stains throughout, some rubbing and bumps and tears at the edges. Quarter black cloth with red cloth on the boards, a small bump at the bottom edge. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the edges and endpapers, clean otherwise. Cook's expose that attempts to show how "the two-dollar bettor who patronizes a bookie does not play an innocent game of tiddlywinks," but rather, "he is helping to bankroll the activities of the most brutal forces in American society -- the thugs, the narcotics peddlers, the pimps, and the killers of the underworld.