George Harmon Coxe Reading Order
1 series · 71 books
George Harmon Coxe was a prolific American crime fiction writer who crafted stories centered on tough detectives and newspaper photographers navigating urban mysteries. Best known for his Jack "Flashgun" Casey series featuring a crime scene photographer turned sleuth, Coxe's work achieved widespread popularity and was adapted into a successful radio program that ran through the 1940s. His straightforward approach to detective storytelling and vivid depictions of crime scenes made him a fixture in the pulp and hardboiled fiction landscape of the twentieth century.
Standalone Novels Series
71 books
George Harmon Coxe wrote 71 standalone novels published across several decades, beginning with Alias the Dead. These mystery and crime novels should be read in publication order, though each book tells a complete, independent story with different characters and settings. The series spans from the early titles like An Easy Way to Go and Assignment in Guiana through later works such as Dangerous Legacy and Deadly Image, offering readers a comprehensive range of detective and suspense fiction from a prolific mid-twentieth-century author.
Start with Alias the dead, the first of 71 books in the Standalone Novels series.
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | Alias the dead |
| 2 | An easy way to go |
| 3 | Assignment in Guiana |
| 4 | Black Cypress; Bedrooms Have Windows; the Hollow Needle |
| 5 | Dangerous legacy |
| 6 | Deadly image |
| 7 | Death at the Isthmus |
| 8 | Double identity |
| 9 | Error of judgment |
| 10 | Eye witness |
| 11 | Fashioned for murder |
| 12 | Fenner |
| 13 | Focus on murder |
| 14 | Four frightened women |
| 15 | Hell's Siphon |
| 16 | Inland passage |
| 17 | Inland passage |
| 18 | Lady killer |
| 19 | Man on a rope |
| 20 | Mission of fear |
| 21 | Moment of violence |
| 22 | Mrs. Murdock takes a case |
| 23 | Murder With Pictures |
| 24 | Murder for the asking |
| 25 | Murder for two |
| 26 | Murder in Havana |
| 27 | Murder on their minds |
| 28 | Murder on their minds |
| 29 | Never bet your life |
| 30 | No place for murder |
| 31 | No time to kill |
| 32 | Noir Novel Megapack |
| 33 | One hour to kill |
| 34 | One minute past eight |
| 35 | One way out |
| 36 | Second Mystery Novel Megapack |
| 37 | Silent are the dead |
| 38 | Slack tide |
| 39 | Suddenly a widow |
| 40 | The Widow Had A Gun |
| 41 | The big gamble |
| 42 | The camera clue |
| 43 | The candid impostor |
| 44 | The charred witness |
| 45 | The crimson clue |
| 46 | The fifth key |
| 47 | The frightened fiancée |
| 48 | The frightened fiancée / Too long endured / Episode of the wandering knife |
| 49 | The glass triangle |
| 50 | The groom lay dead |
| 51 | The hidden key |
| 52 | The hollow needle |
| 53 | The impetuous mistress |
| 54 | The inside man |
| 55 | The inside man, One O'Clock at the gotham, Don't go into the woods todays |
| 56 | The jade venus |
| 57 | The lady is afraid |
| 58 | The last commandment |
| 59 | The man who died too soon |
| 60 | The man who died twice |
| 61 | The reluctant heiress |
| 62 | The ring of truth |
| 63 | The silent witness |
| 64 | Third Mystery Megapack |
| 65 | Top assignment |
| 66 | Triple exposure |
| 67 | Uninvited guest |
| 68 | Venturous lady |
| 69 | With intent to kill |
| 70 | Woman at bay |
| 71 | Woman with a gun |
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