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Eye Witness

By: George Harmon Coxe

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Doing a favor for an old friend gets Kent Murdock involved in a murderDIVNewspaper photographer Kent Murdock goes to Union City for the sake of Helen Farnsley, an old friend whose marriage is in trouble. Long ago he warned her against marrying Lee, and now that their life together has turned sour he wants to help her escape it. But the trouble in Union City starts as soon as he gets to his hotel room./divDIV /divDIVBehind the mirror, Murdock finds a diamond bracelet belonging to the room’s previous resident, a talent agent named Harry who returns a few minutes later to collect it. That night, Murdock sits down with Helen’s husband, who asks for a few hours alone in the room to think. When Murdock returns, Lee has been murdered, and the police are looking for the room’s owner. Kent doesn’t stop to talk to the cops. It would be much easier to find the killer himself./div

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Open Road Media

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1453233369

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9781453233368

Murder on Their Minds

By: George Harmon Coxe

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Murder on Their Minds

By: George Harmon Coxe

A routine assignment gets a PI killed, and Kent Murdock dives into the caseDIVA thirty-eight year veteran of the Boston police force, Tom Brady has recently retired, and is beginning a new life as a private investigator. Struggling to make ends meet, he turns to newspaper photographer Kent Murdock, who recommends him to a society woman who is willing to pay big for his services. Brady’s just wrapping up the case when he asks Murdock for a favor: photographing fourteen pages of important documents for safekeeping. Murdock agrees not to look too closely while he takes the pictures—a decision he regrets when the negatives are stolen and Tom Brady is found dead./divDIV /divDIVNormally Murdock stays out of the way of the Boston police, but he gave Brady the assignment. To atone, he must unravel the mystery that cost his friend his life./div

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1453233407

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9781453233405

The Second Mystery Novel MEGAPACK ®

4 Great Mystery Novels

By: Elisabeth Sanxay Holding,Spencer Dean,George Harmon Coxe,Curtiss T. Gardner

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The Second Mystery Novel MEGAPACK ®

4 Great Mystery Novels

By: Elisabeth Sanxay Holding,Spencer Dean,George Harmon Coxe,Curtiss T. Gardner

The Second Mystery Novel MEGAPACK® presents four more classic mysteries (published between 1941 and 1959) by top mystery writers of the era...more than 650 pages of classic whodunits. Dig in and enjoy! Included are: SPEAK OF THE DEVIL, by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding THE MERCHANT OF MURDER, by Spencer Dean THE FIFTH KEY, by George Harmon Coxe BONES DON'T LIE, by Curtiss T. Gardner If you enjoy this volume of classic mysteries, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see the 270+ other entries in this series, including science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, adventure, horror, westerns -- and much, much more!

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479407895

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9781479407897

The Jade Venus

By: George Harmon Coxe

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The Jade Venus

By: George Harmon Coxe

Hoodlums steal a worthless painting, and Kent Murdock wants to know whyDIVA collection of valuable Italian paintings finds its way to Boston, placed in the care of Professor Andrade. Before passing them to a museum, the professor hires newspaper photographer Kent Murdock to document them. On his way to the assignment, Murdock is stopped by a gunman named Erloff, who steals the reporter’s identification—and pays his own visit to the professor./divDIV /divDIVBut Erloff is not after the expensive stuff. He cracks Andrade on the skull and leaves with nothing but a worthless painting of a green-hued Venus. Murdock is perplexed. Why all the trouble for an ugly piece of modern art? But the jade Venus holds a terrible secret—and blood will flow before it comes to light./div

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Open Road Media

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1453233326

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9781453233320

Murder with Pictures

By: George Harmon Coxe

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Murder with Pictures

By: George Harmon Coxe

FOLEY, THE RED-FACED, uniformed deputy on duty in the hall, peeked through one of the glass ovals inset in the leather-covered courtroom doors and said: "Hey, the jury's comin, out!" A concentrated and irritable sigh from the group of news-photographers lounging in the hall greeted the announcement. There was an intangible flurry of movement, a casual shifting of stances. Brant, of the News, sighed wearily. "Boy, it's about time." Tobacco smoke, the residue of a four-hour harvest from an apparently inexhaustible supply of cigarettes, choked the air with a stale stuffy smell and hung suspended in a hazy, pale-blue blanket that shrouded the arched ceiling. Cigarette butts, matches, crumpled paper holders littered the ash-strewn floor. Cameras and bulky black plate-cases were stacked in a row along one wall. Foley said: "It won't be long now," and kept his eye glued to the little glass window. Brant sighed again. Coughlin and Weinstock, who had been matching nickels for the past hour, continued, unimpressed. 'Til bet he gets it," Kesler said. He looked around as though waiting for a challenge. "Who wants to bet Girard ain't guilty?" "Girard's waiting to hear it," Foley announced. Coughlin said: "That's four bits you're in me. A buckor nothing." Weinstock nodded silently and flipped his coin. Coughlin said: "Nuts!" and fished a crumpled bill from his pocket. "It looks like an acquittal," Foley said. "Girard is—" He broke off in sudden alarm and jumped aside. In the next instant the swinging doors slapped outward; Purdy, of the Evening Standard, bucked through the opening. Without breaking his stride, Purdy called: "Not Guilty!" and pounded down the marble floor in his race for a telephone. Foley growled: "Hey, you! Quiet!" Then the rest of the reporters swarmed out of the courtroom and he was forgotten. [from Chapter 1]

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Knopf

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0804152349

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9780804152341

Lady Killer

By: George Harmon Coxe

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Lady Killer

By: George Harmon Coxe

Smuggling leads to murder, with Kent Murdock caught in the middleDIVWhen the Kemnora, a stately liner on her maiden voyage, docks in Boston, Kent Murdock is there to cover the story. He’s joined by Harry Felton, a reporter and one-time foreign correspondent in France. As they leave the port, Murdock notices customs officials working over some passengers, but leaves without a second thought. After all, reporters are never bothered at customs./divDIV /divDIVOnly later does Murdock learn that he left with a small package in his camera bag, hidden there by someone on the ship—and retrieved later by Felton. He goes to ask Felton why he was used as an unwitting smuggler, but finds the reporter dead on the floor of his apartment. Whatever was in that package was worth killing for, and Murdock will find it, even if it means becoming a target himself./div

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Open Road Media

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1453233350

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9781453233351

The Crimson Clue

By: George Harmon Coxe

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The Crimson Clue

By: George Harmon Coxe

DIVWhile taking pictures at a society wedding, Kent Murdock stumbles upon a murder/divDIV/divDIVEvery society family has skeletons in its closets, but only the Cannings have a fresh corpse. Kent Murdock finds the dead man while taking pictures at the wedding of Patricia Canning and Roger Armington, scions of Boston’s most prominent—and camera-shy—families. Patricia and Murdock have been friends for years, and she invited him to photograph the wedding against her parents’ wishes. For the killer, Murdock’s appearance is very bad luck indeed./divDIV /divDIVThe dead man turns out to be Patricia’s ex-husband, whom she spent three days married to before the family pressured him into an annulment. He traveled to Boston in search of blackmail and found death instead. Whichever Canning killed him had hoped to sweep the murder under the rug. But Kent Murdock’s camera has a way of finding the truth, no matter how ugly it may be./div

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Open Road Media

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1453233377

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9781453233375

The Hollow Needle

By: George Harmon Coxe

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The Hollow Needle

By: George Harmon Coxe

One of Kent’s pictures holds the secret to a wealthy man’s deathNo one has seen titan of industry John Caldwell for nine years when he hires Kent Murdock to take his picture. Caldwell is preparing a landmark announcement, and wants Boston’s finest newspaper photographer there to document it. Murdock chafes at the stuffy environment of the Caldwell home—particularly when Caldwell’s heir instructs him to take only one picture. Using an infrared flash, Murdock sneaks a second shot. Less than an hour later, John Caldwell is dead. Murdock makes a print of his second photo, hoping to find something that explains the strange ways of the Caldwell clan. Before he can examine it, the family’s thugs assault him in the dark room, destroying the picture. The photo is gone, but there’s no stopping Kent Murdock from learning what’s rotten in the Caldwell estate.

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1453233342

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9781453233344

The Fifth Key

A Classic Mystery Novel

By: George Harmon Coxe

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The Fifth Key

A Classic Mystery Novel

By: George Harmon Coxe

When Kent Murdock, news cameraman who doubles as a private eye, steps into a case there’s always plenty of fast talk and fast action. But even Kent didn't bargain for the singing slugs and flying fists that dogged his trail in the bedroom murder of New York’s most beautiful radio writer -- who handed out keys to her apartment like a salesman hands out samples. It was only reasonable that Kent should be trailed by trouble -- for this time he was both detective and chief suspect! And that was reasonable, too, for he had shared the death-bed with the lovely corpse -- and there were pictures to prove it!

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479422339

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9781479422333

The Big Gamble

By: George Harmon Coxe

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The Big Gamble

By: George Harmon Coxe

The Big Gamble, first published in 1958, is part of master noir-writer George Harmon Coxes’ “Kent Murdock” suspense series. Murdock, a photographer for a Boston newspaper, inadvertently becomes involved in a case of murder after photographing a traffic accident. From the original publisher’s preface: A day of golf was all Kent Murdock had in mind when he left the office, but a pile-up on the highway made him stop to take a few pictures just as any good news-photographer would have done. Whether or not the three thugs who wanted his films were bluffing Kent never found out because of the blonde who wanted a lift back to town. After that everything seemed to be spinning crazily. A car stolen, then abandoned—a blaring radio in a motel cabin—a twisted figure on the floor—questions that needed answers—and answers that were closer to home than Kent would ever have expected. And which, with the death of another, were to move closer still. The big gambler often goes for double or nothing. So does the murderer. Sometimes the winning streak is hard to break. This new Kent Murdock story is as fast-moving and suspense-filled as any your favorite news-photographer has ever been involved in. It’s top-level detection—and entertainment—all the way.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1789128811

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9781789128819

Bibliotheca Cornubiensis

Vol. I

By: George Boase

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Bibliotheca Cornubiensis

Vol. I

By: George Boase

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

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3368823361

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9783368823368

A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses

By: George A. Katchmer

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A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses

By: George A. Katchmer

Long before sound became an essential part of motion pictures, Westerns were an established genre. The men and women who brought to life cowboys, cowgirls, villains, sidekicks, distressed damsels and outraged townspeople often continued with their film careers, finding success and fame well into the sound era--always knowing that it was in silent Westerns that their careers began. More than a thousand of these once-silent Western players are featured in this fully indexed encyclopedic work. Each entry includes a detailed biography, covering both personal and professional milestones and a complete Western filmography. A foreword is supplied by Diana Serra Cary (formerly the child star "Baby Peggy"), who performed with many of the actors herein.

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McFarland

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0786446935

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9780786446933

Book's by George Murdock

Eye Witness

Eye Witness

Murder on Their Minds

Murder on Their Minds

The Second Mystery Novel MEGAPACK ®

The Second Mystery Novel MEGAPACK ®

The Jade Venus

The Jade Venus

Murder with Pictures

Murder with Pictures

Lady Killer

Lady Killer

The Crimson Clue

The Crimson Clue

The Hollow Needle

The Hollow Needle

The Fifth Key

The Fifth Key

The Big Gamble

The Big Gamble

Bibliotheca Cornubiensis

Bibliotheca Cornubiensis

A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses

A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses

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