Inspector McKee Series

31 primary works • 31 total works
Christopher McKee, known as the “Scotsman,” a police inspector, later head of Manhattan’s homicide squad, mostly in New York City:

Note: Although the McKee character appeared in two earlier novels, the promotional text in McKee of Centre Street goes to some lengths to present the book as “the first of the cases of Inspector McKee of Centre Street ..…

Book 1

The Diamond Feather
3.50
· 2 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1930 · 2 editions
Symbol of mystery and death...the diamond feather …
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Book 2

Murder in the Mews
3.56
· 16 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1931 · 13 editions
It started with a man found bumped off in a Rolls …
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Book 3

McKee of Centre Street
3.47
· 32 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 1933 · 12 editions
A speakeasy performer is murdered in this pioneeri…
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Book 4

The Line Up
3.70
· 10 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1934 · 5 editions
There was no doubt who killed Timothy Arden, but w…
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Book 5

Dead Man Control
4.50
· 6 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1936 · 11 editions
Fennimore Kingston was the corpse who had everythi…
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Book 6

Mr. Smith's Hat
3.46
· 13 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1936 · 7 editions
from the back cover:
"My God! The G.W.W...."
Those w…
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Book 7

All Concerned Notified
3.33
· 6 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1939 · 8 editions
McKee found plenty of people who wanted her dead. …
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Book 8

Dead for a Ducat
5.00
· 1 Ratings · published 1939 · 6 editions
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Book 9

Death Demands an Audience
3.91
· 11 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1940 · 6 editions
The murderer wasn't shy. One victim was killed in …
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Book 10

Murder in Shinbone Alley
3.00
· 12 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1940 · 19 editions
An Inspector McKee mystery
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Book 11

The Dead Can Tell
4.05
· 38 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 1940 · 11 editions
A rampaging wife of a Manhattan socialite plunges …
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Book 12

Mourned on Sunday
4.25
· 4 Ratings · published 1941 · 4 editions
A story of a triple murder in Dutchess County, New…
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Book 13

Three Women in Black
3.60
· 25 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1941 · 6 editions
An Inspector McKee Mystery. Dr. Gilbert Shane stoo…
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Book 14

Name Your Poison
3.92
· 13 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1942 · 6 editions
Dell Map Back 148
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Book 15

The Opening Door
4.17
· 41 Ratings · 9 Reviews · published 1944 · 11 editions
This is the story of a beautiful and haunted young…
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Book 16

Murder on Angler's Island
4.14
· 7 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1945 · 10 editions
It is wartime 1945, and Angler's Island is home to…
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Book 17

The Silver Leopard
3.83
· 12 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1946 · 4 editions
Dell Mapback #287. Cover by F. Kenwood Giles.
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Book 18

The Farmhouse
4.00
· 20 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1943 · 6 editions
Mrs. Reilly again demonstrates her uncanny talent …
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Book 19

Staircase 4
3.57
· 21 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1949 · 11 editions
Death strikes down a man on the eve of his wedding…
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Book 20

Murder at Arroways
3.59
· 27 Ratings · 11 Reviews · published 1950 · 16 editions
Mystery fiction.
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Book 21

Lament for the Bride
3.31
· 13 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1951 · 6 editions
Inspector McKee is drawn into a thrilling case of …
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Book 22

The Double Man
3.75
· 8 Ratings · published 1952 · 6 editions
Dell #732. Cover art by Denver Gillen.
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Book 23

The Velvet Hand
3.58
· 12 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1953 · 6 editions
Another intricate cat-and-mouse problem in murder …
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Book 24

Tell Her It's Murder
3.69
· 13 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1954 · 7 editions
Tell Her It's Murder, an Inspector McKee mystery R…
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Book 25

Compartment K
3.50
· 14 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1955 · 7 editions
It had been planned, everybody thought, as a famil…
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Book 26

The Canvas Dagger
3.86
· 7 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1956 · 7 editions
It wasn’t a case of no clues, but of too many. Eig…
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Book 27

Ding Dong Bell
3.00
· 12 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1958 · 5 editions
McKee investigates a very dead PI with a very much…
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Book 28

Not Me, Inspector
3.83
· 6 Ratings · published 1959 · 5 editions
New Random House,, (1959.). Good in good dust jack…
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Book 29

Follow Me
4.00
· 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1960 · 3 editions
Taken from title of this Mrs. Reilly's new murder …
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Book 31

The Day She Died
3.27
· 11 Ratings · published 1962 · 4 editions
Inspector McKee of Manhattan Homicide, on a holida…
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Book 30

Certain Sleep
3.09
· 11 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1961 · 5 editions
1961
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