The Last Commandment

Kent Murdock Mystery #18

by George Harmon Coxe

Courtney Alsop's women:

His daughter had a boyfriend Alsop was out to disgrace...

His sister had a long-standing hatred...or was it guilt?...

His fiancée still had an inconvenient husband...

Explosive situation — and the explosion left Alsop dead and ace photog Kent Murdock in hot water — trailing a murderer who was ready to kill again!

Pyramid #R1727.

Genres: Mystery

173 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1960

About the author

George Harmon Coxe was an American writer of crime fiction.His series characters are Jack "Flashgun" Casey, Kent Murdock, Leon Morley, Sam Crombie, Max Hale and Jack Fenner. Casey and Murdock are both detectives and photographers. He started writing officially from around 1922, his work being for nickel and dime pulp fiction of the time. To earn money, he originally wrote in many genres, including romance and adventure stories, but was especially fond of crime fiction, his character "Jack (Flashgun) Casey" becoming a popular radio show through to the 1940s. He wrote a total of 63 novels, the last being published in 1975. He was associated with MGM as a writer.

Married to Elizabeth Fowler in 1929, Coxe had 2 children.

He was named a Grand Master in 1964 by The Mystery Writers of America.

Reviews

[Ethan Hulbert · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a pretty standard Coxe mystery starring Kent Murdock with a call to Fenner. Bacon was good in this one too. The characters were all kinda the same and underdeveloped and nothing really grabbed me, it was pretty average for Coxe tbh. But an average Coxe is still a better than average mystery, so I'd say this is 3.5 rounded up to 4. I DID thoroughly enjoy the ending reveal, at least!