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George Harmon Coxe


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George Harmon Coxe's writing career officially began in 1922 when he labored, largely unrecognized, in the nickel and dime pulps for pennies a word. Unlike most of his contemporaries, Coxe wrote across various genres: love stories, sports, adventure tales - anything that he could sell, but his special fondness for crime fiction would eventually lead him to the Black Mask, where its legendary editor, Joe Shaw, purchased his first Jack 'Flashgun' Casey crime story in 1934. Hollywood beckoned in the mid-1930s and Coxe worked for MGM from 1936-38. But unlike many of his fellow pulp writers, Coxe preferred writing books... and he was a particularly prolific author, writing a total of 63 novels, his last published in 1975. The Mystery Writers of America named him a Grand Master in 1964. Married since 1929, Coxe had 2 children and died on January 31, 1984.
 


Genres: Mystery
 
Series
Kent Murdock Mystery
   1. Murder with Pictures (1935)
   2. The Barotique Mystery (1936)
     aka Murdock's Acid Test
   3. The Camera Clue (1937)
   4. The Frightened Women (1939)
     aka Four Frightened Women
   5. The Glass Triangle (1940)
   6. Mrs. Murdock Takes a Case (1941)
   7. The Charred Witness (1942)
   8. The Jade Venus (1945)
   9. The Fifth Key (1947)
   10. The Hollow Needle (1948)
   11. Eye Witness (1949)
   12. Lady Killer (1949)
   13. The Widow Had a Gun (1951)
   14. The Crimson Clue (1952)
   15. Focus On Murder (1954)
   16. Murder On Their Minds (1957)
   17. The Big Gamble (1958)
   18. The Last Commandment (1960)
   19. The Hidden Key (1963)
   20. The Reluctant Heiress (1965)
   21. An Easy Way to Go (1969)
   22. Fenner (1971)
   23. The Silent Witness (1974)
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Max Hale
   1. The Lady Is Afraid (1940)
   2. Murder for the Asking (1940)
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Flash Casey
   Silent Are the Dead (1941)
   Murder for Two (1943)
   Flash Casey , Detective (1946)
   The Man Who Died Too Soon (1962)
     aka One Murder Too Many
   Deadly Image (1964)
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Novels
   No Time to Kill (1941)
   Assignment In Guiana (1942)
   Alias the Dead (1943)
   Murder in Havana (1943)
   The Groom Lay Dead (1944)
   Woman At Bay (1945)
   Fashioned for Murder (1947)
   Dangerous Legacy (1949)
   The Man Who Died Twice (1951)
   Venturous Lady (1951)
   Never Bet Your Life (1952)
   Inland Passage (1953)
   Death At the Isthmus (1954)
   Top Assignment (1955)
   Man On a Rope (1956)
   Suddenly a Widow (1956)
   Uninivited Guest (1956)
   The Evil Man (1957)
   One Minute Past Eight (1957)
   Slack Tide (1958)
   The Class Triangle (1959)
   One Way Out (1960)
   Error of Judgement (1961)
   Mission of Fear (1962)
   Moment of Violence (1962)
   One Hour To Kill (1963)
   With Intent to Kill (1964)
   The Ring of Truth (1966)
   The Candid Impostor (1967)
   Double Identity (1970)
   Woman with a Gun (1972)
   Double Indentity (1974)
   The Inside Man (1974)
   No Place for Murder (1975)
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Books containing stories by George Harmon Coxe
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The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps (2007)
Forty-Five of the Best Stories to Come Out of the Pulps During Their Golden Age
edited by
Otto Penzler
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The Crimefighters (2006)
(Pulp Fiction, book 1)
edited by
Otto Penzler
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Fifty Best Mysteries (2004)
edited by
Eleanor Sullivan

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