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Kent Murdock Mystery #21

by George Harmon Coxe

Der Kunstmaler Lloyd Farnsworth pflegt seine Honorare durch Erpressungen aufzubessern. Seine zahlreichen Freundinnen scheint das nicht zu stören - umso mehr jedoch deren Ehemänner.

Wen wundert es, dass er eines Tages mit eingeschlagenem Schädel aufgefunden wird? Auch Kent Murdock, Foto-Reporter beim Bostoner Courier, hat so etwas erwartet - nur nicht, dass man ausgerechnet ihm den Mord in die Schuhe schieben würde...

266 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 8, 2020

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

[Glen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ace news photographer Kent Murdoch is accosted in a restaurant by an artist. Later somebody mugs him, and Murdoch goes up to the artist's loft to settle things, only to find the artist is murdered, and he's a prime suspect.

Murdoch and his friend, PI Jack Fenner, wander around Boston uncovering clues and getting into trouble.

A solid mystery.