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George Harmon Coxe (1901–1984)

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Verk av George Harmon Coxe

Murder With Pictures (1935) 34 exemplar
The Impetuous Mistress (1958) 27 exemplar
Murder on Their Minds (1957) 27 exemplar
The Crimson Clue (1953) 21 exemplar
Eye Witness (1950) 20 exemplar
One Minute Past Eight (1900) 19 exemplar
Fenner (1971) 18 exemplar
Man on a Rope (1958) 18 exemplar
With Intent to Kill (1964) 18 exemplar
Silent are the dead (1942) 16 exemplar
The Fifth Key (1947) 16 exemplar
The Ring of Truth (1966) 16 exemplar
Bevakad ombord (1949) 15 exemplar
The Glass Triangle (1940) 15 exemplar
Four Frightened Women (1939) 15 exemplar
Never Bet Your Life (1952) 15 exemplar
Top Assignment (1955) 15 exemplar
Focus on Murder (1954) 15 exemplar
The Big Gamble (1958) 14 exemplar
Suddenly a Widow (1956) 13 exemplar
Error of Judgment (1961) 13 exemplar
Murder for two (1943) 13 exemplar
Uninvited Guest (1953) 13 exemplar
The Camera Clue (1937) 13 exemplar
Fashioned for Murder (1947) 13 exemplar
The Jade Venus (1945) 12 exemplar
The Man Who Died Twice (1951) 12 exemplar
Murdock's Acid Test (1936) 12 exemplar
Death at the Isthmus (1954) 12 exemplar
The hidden key (1963) 12 exemplar
The man who died too soon (1962) 12 exemplar
Deadly Image (1946) 11 exemplar
The Candid Imposter (1967) 11 exemplar
The Lady is Afraid (1940) 11 exemplar
One Hour to Kill (1963) 10 exemplar
One way out (1960) 10 exemplar
The Reluctant Heiress (1965) 10 exemplar
Moment of violence (1961) 10 exemplar
The Groom Lay Dead (1951) 10 exemplar
Mission of fear (1962) 10 exemplar
The Widow Had a Gun (1951) 9 exemplar
No Time to Kill (1947) 9 exemplar
The Hollow Needle (1948) 9 exemplar
Assignment in Guiana (1949) 8 exemplar
The Frightened Fiancée (1950) 8 exemplar
Alias the Dead (2008) 8 exemplar
Venturous Lady (1948) 7 exemplar
Woman with a gun (1972) 7 exemplar
Murder for the asking (1940) 7 exemplar
Mrs. Murdock Takes a Case (1941) 7 exemplar
Lady Killer (1949) 6 exemplar
The Charred Witness (1942) 6 exemplar
The Last Commandment (1960) 6 exemplar
Flash Casey . . . Detective (1946) 6 exemplar
Dangerous legacy (1946) 6 exemplar
Slack tide (1959) 6 exemplar
Woman At Bay (1945) 6 exemplar
The Inside Man (1975) 5 exemplar
The Silent Witness (1973) 5 exemplar
An Easy Way to Go (1969) 4 exemplar
No Place for Murder (1975) 4 exemplar
Double Identity (1974) 4 exemplar
Murder in Havana 4 exemplar
Butcher, Baker, Murder-Maker (1954) — Editor & Introduction — 4 exemplar
The Death Club 1 exemplar
Prova Formal 1 exemplar
Mission Fear (2019) 1 exemplar

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The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 531 exemplar
101 Mystery Stories (1986) — Bidragsgivare — 26 exemplar
The Mammoth Book of Movie Detectives and Screen Crimes (1998) — Bidragsgivare — 20 exemplar
Four and Twenty Bloodhounds (1950) — Bidragsgivare — 17 exemplar
Kill or Cure (1985) — Bidragsgivare — 17 exemplar
Murder for the Millions (1946) — Bidragsgivare — 7 exemplar
Dolls Are Murder : a Mystery Writers of America Anthology (1957) — Bidragsgivare — 6 exemplar
20 Great Tales of Murder (1951) — Bidragsgivare — 6 exemplar

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Pretty decent read by longtime Black Mask contributor George Harmon Coxe. Here, his Boston newspaper photographer/inadvertent detective Flash Casey--older, if not much wiser--accepts a freelance assignment that lands him in a world of trouble and may have had something to do with the murder of a friend. Plagued by guilt, he attempts to track down the killer and soon uncovers a blackmail scheme targeting a psychiatrist's female patients. Can Casey and salty Homicide Lieutenant Logan join all the loose ends and bring the murderer to justice?

Unlike Dashiell Hammett or Raymond Chandler, Coxe was not a literary stylist: he was a solid, reliable storyteller and wrote many books. The drawback here is that Flash Casey had his origins in the two-fisted, rough-and-tumble brand of crime fiction, so that the older, slightly more introspective Casey isn't quite as engaging a character as his younger self. He just doesn't have enough depth to compete with Chandler's Philip Marlowe or Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer. (For Casey at his finest, see Black Mask stories like "Murder Picture" and "Once Around the Clock.") Still, Error of Judgment is a consistently entertaining novel; it's unlikely that you'll ever reread it, but you won't be sorry that you read it the first time. Three and a quarter stars.

(Originally published in 1961; reissued in 1967 as One Murder Too Many.)
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Jonathan_M | Feb 4, 2023 |
A potential heir must come to his uncle's estate in the Barbados as a condition to secure the inheritance. But there is some question as to whether the man who arrived is the nephew and the uncle is found dead the second morning after his arrival. Lots of suspects running all over the territory and several women to distract them. Assumed sexism and racism and the straight up protagonist of the lesser efforts of the period.
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quondame | May 29, 2022 |
Excellent Mystery. I'd like to read more from this author.
 
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Audrey68 | Aug 6, 2020 |
Wow! I found this book and another like it at a church fair book table. I had thought I'd like me some pulp detective fiction from the 40s, and that's what this is. For some reason, GoodReads claims this book is from 1950, but the inside of the cover says 1937, and Wikipedia says 1938. The ambiance seems more 30s to me than 50s. As such it's great. As literature, of course not. It certainly merits a 3* rating, because it's a great example of its genre.

The story is about an ace newspaper photographer (in Boston no less) who is asked by his wife to see if he can bail our her best friend, who apparently has just murdered someone who had been blackmailing her. When the photographer gets to the place where the victim was murdered, he takes a picture of a street parade (that also has a bunch of odd people watching/by standing), then goes inside and takes a couple more shots of the crime scene. This, before the cops even know about the crime. Well, all and sundry start tracking the guy down to try to get the pictures from him before they get published, or even to the cops. Several more people get murdered on the way to a surprise ending.

That's as much as I'll tell of the plot. But it's wonderful pulp fiction. It's full of tough guys, floozies, rich people trying to pay off folks to get the odds bent in their favor, double crossing, adultery (alluded to, and only tastefully at that), con men, and so forth. Oh, and, of course, lots of drinking. This is stuff right out of Guy Noire or Humphrey Bogart, i.e. awesome in its tawdry way. The copy I had—a Dell paperback—has just about the worst typography one could imagine (although a campily lurid cover). But thinking about the time period, they were likely saving on money, so skimped on niceties like margins, white space and so forth.

Anyway, if you fancy an occasional cheesy 30s/40s dime novel, this is a great choice; if you want real literature, hunt up some Dickens of Murakami.
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lgpiper | Jun 21, 2019 |

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Verk
73
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22
Medlemmar
773
Popularitet
#32,918
Betyg
½ 3.7
Recensioner
19
ISBN
99
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4
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