George Harmon Coxe – författare

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]

Four different writers explore the darker aspects of crime fiction in THE NOIR NOVEL MEGAPACK™:

HUNTER AT LARGE, by Thomas B. Dewey ... Mickey requested a year''s leave of absence from his job on the police force. What else could he do? He''d just spent five months in the hospital because he''d been the only witness to a brutal murder...and the victim was his own wife!

NEVER BET YOUR LIFE, by George Harmon Coxe ... It was a tidy Florida motel with all the important conveniences: a beautiful stretch of beach, a handy night club with a shapely chanteuse up front, and a wicked roulette wheel in the back. But when John Gannon -- a wealthy sportsman with a penchant for suicide -- showed up, the front fell away!

CARNAL PSYCHO, by Duane Rimel ... They were beautiful and they were passionate -- so he had to destroy them all -- in a way so shocking that readers will gasp!MURDER IN LAS VEGAS, by Jack Waer ... The big-time hood lay dead on Steve''s bed with three slugs from Steve''s gun in his gun -- yet Steve Walters hadn''t the slightest idea how he had gotten there. The wayward blonde who alone could clear his name, had taken one call to many. When Steve burst into her apartment, he found her, all right -- with her throat cut!

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SPEAK OF THE DEVIL, by Elisabeth Sanxay HoldingTHE MERCHANT OF MURDER, by Spencer DeanTHE FIFTH KEY, by George Harmon CoxeBONES DON''T LIE, by Curtiss T. Gardner

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Trouble struck the schooner Griselda at 9:40 on an April evening. It was not the fault of the weather or the sea or the soundness of her hull. The trouble was human. A woman. Her name was Julia Parks, though in the beginning she insisted it was Lambert.

It was hard to blame Howard Crane for bringing her aboard, because Julia always got what she wanted. What she wanted in this case was money. Keith Lambert’s—her ex-husband’s—money. That there were others too who wanted it was one of the first things that came to the minds of the Barbados police the next morning when Julia was found suffocated in her cabin. But the only trail they had to follow was one of tangled lives and tangled motives that led to jealousy, blackmail, native secrecy, and sudden death — all against the peaceful tropical background of picturesque Barbados.

Here is another of the highly polished, tightly knit, and suspenseful mysteries that have made George Harmon Coxe for almost twenty years one of the deans of mystery writers.

The Third Mystery MEGAPACK® collects 26 modern and classic mysteries. Here are:THE AFRICAN FISH MYSTERY, by James HoldingTHE EBONY STICK, by Earl Derr BiggersCHICKENS FOR CHARLIE, by Arlette LeesDOUBLE DOUBLE-CROSS, by Jack London BerkebileTHE DOOMDORF MYSTERY, by Melville Davisson PostCAPTAIN ROGERS, by W.W. JacobsA BORDERLINE CASE, by Rufus KingJUDGE BARCLAY''S WIFE, by William Hope HodgsonTHE ARCHDUKE''S TEA, by H.C. BaileyTHE IMPETUOUS MISTRESS, by George Harmon CoxeAARON''S PERFECT PLANS, by Pauline Tyson StephensBUTTERFLY OF DEATH, by Harold GluckMORGUE REUNION, by Norman A. DanielsFOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW, by Maurice LeBlancDROPS OF DEATH, by George Allan EnglandTHE BITER BIT, by Wilkie CollinsTHE FACES OF DANGER, by Rufus KingTHE KNIGHT''S CROSS SIGNAL PROBLEM, by Ernest BramahTHESE SHOES ARE KILLING ME, by Leroy YerxaTHE MYSTERY OF THE DOWNS, by John R. Watson and Arthur J. ReesTOO MANY SPIES, by Joseph J. MillardWHO KILLED GILBERT FOSTER?, By E. Hoffmann Price & Ralph Milne FarleyTO REMEMBER YOU BY, by Rufus KingTHE YELLOW MOTH, by Fred M. WhiteWHO MURDERED MR. THOMAS? A Puzzle Story, by Edgar Rice BurroughsTHE SKINS YOU LOVE TO TOUCH, by Janet Fox

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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!

LOVED TO DEATH!

Actually, she hadn''t been worth getting involved with.

Yet, the fact remained that a lot of men had. And one of them had been more involved than anyone could know.

A cozy, one-bedroom apartment and an engraved anniversary present put George Harmon Coxe''s celebrated private detective, Sam Crombie, onto the trail of four men. All had loved the same woman. All had eventually left her. One had left her dead...