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News photographer Kent Murdock's honeymoon on a Caribbean island is interrupted by murder. Instead of enjoying a quiet holiday, he becomes occupied with tracing the killings and uncovering the truth behind the crimes surrounding him.

A professional blackmailer's murder leaves a potentially revealing photograph taken outside at the time of the crime. Newspaper photographer Kent Murdock turns investigator, following an image that implicates several people in different ways as he searches for the killer.

Photographer Kent Murdock expects an easy assignment at a comedian's country home, but finds anxious guests, a gangster, and a bodyguard. When a visiting actress is murdered, he becomes a suspect and must untangle the gathering's hidden tensions.

Murder follows a motion picture preview, drawing Kent Murdock into a case where both a corpse and his photographic plates disappear. A fragment of glass becomes his tangible clue as he tries to reconstruct what happened.

When Kent Murdock declines to investigate, his wife Joyce steps forward to protect a friend facing suspicion of murder. She must work through a baffling case herself, bringing her own judgment to dangers usually associated with her husband’s investigations.

Photographer Flash Casey returns to replace ruined pictures of a wealthy lawyer and instead finds him murdered. A hurried photograph of the fleeing killer gives Casey a dangerous lead, drawing him beyond his newspaper assignment into the crime itself.

Aspiring newspaperman Tony Kenyon is hired to impersonate a dead man and travels to a wealthy household in Connecticut. The deception draws him into a swindle and a murder investigation that leaves him in serious trouble.

Flash Casey accompanies a columnist trying to help an inventor recover the profits stolen by his partner. Finding his friend murdered, Casey investigates while saddled with a wealthy student's unwanted assistance and a case that has turned deadly.

An American engineer pauses in Havana after completing a secret Navy assignment in the Caribbean. His holiday brings him into a wartime city of stranded refugees, gamblers and spies, where a crime threatens to entangle him in a dangerous international intrigue.

Guests assemble at a Finger Lakes country estate to celebrate a wedding, only for the groom to be murdered. Over five anxious days, the gathering becomes a struggle to identify a killer who remains among them and may strike again.

Hired to photograph valuable paintings, Kent Murdock is waylaid by a gunman who steals his identity and an apparently worthless picture. Discovering why anyone wanted the ugly green Venus draws Murdock into a mystery with increasingly deadly consequences.

An American agent travels to wartime Havana to obtain a diary exposing collaborationists and possible Nazi business ties. Its owner is his former wife, and approaching her draws him into a violent conspiracy complicated by their unresolved personal history.

Four stories follow newspaper photographer Flash Casey as routine assignments pull him into criminal investigations. A kidnapped reporter, police work, and the search for newsworthy pictures place him amid dangerous situations where observation matters as much as his camera.

Fashion photographer Jerry Nason reluctantly accepts work from a model who once stood him up. Her assignment involves photographing costume jewelry for two suspicious employers, and her eventual explanation exposes a plot far more dangerous than a fashion shoot.

Boston lawyer Marshall becomes protector and investigator when Eve faces attempts on her life. Family conflicts, blackmail, murder, and financial manipulation complicate his efforts to understand her predicament, while their relationship develops beyond his role as bodyguard.

Kent Murdock becomes both investigator and chief suspect when a radio writer is murdered in her bedroom. Photographs linking him to the victim force the news cameraman to confront mounting danger while discovering who used her many apartment keys.

A reclusive industrialist hires Kent Murdock for a photograph, then dies shortly afterward. Murdock's unauthorized second exposure may explain the death, but violent efforts to destroy it convince him that the family's secrets demand a closer look.

A New England summer stock company provides the setting for a murder investigation involving the Fellhaven Playhouse. Publicity man Bill Reaburn turns detective as the theater's people and competing interests become central to understanding the crime.

Determined to avenge his uncle's murder, young Morgan becomes entangled in further killings in Guiana. His personal search leads into tropical intrigue and a Nazi conspiracy, leaving him to untangle crimes whose stakes extend beyond his family.

Unable to find civilian work after wartime flying, Spence Rankin accepts a former comrade's request to accompany him to Manila. A plea from a father presumed dead may be genuine or a trap connected to powerful mining interests.

Visiting an old friend whose marriage is failing, Kent Murdock discovers a stranger's jewelry in his hotel room. When the friend's husband is killed there, Murdock pursues the murderer before the police can turn their attention fully toward him.

Covering an ocean liner's arrival, Kent Murdock unknowingly carries a smuggled package through customs. When the reporter who retrieves it is murdered, Murdock investigates the cargo's importance and the people willing to kill to keep it hidden.

John Holland arrives to reunite with Tracy and discovers she appears to be engaged to another man. When that man, a detective hired to test him, is murdered, Holland becomes entangled with the victim's determined employer and the investigation.

Duncan Ward arrives in Barbados impersonating an old college friend to claim a share of his family's estate. Discovering a thriving plantation and an attempted poisoning, he realizes the inheritance is worth far more, and provokes greater danger, than expected.

After a troubled gambler is murdered at a Florida motel, Dave Barnum becomes a leading suspect. A further attempt on a woman's life convinces him to investigate the financial motives and enemies surrounding the victim before another attack succeeds.

Photographing a society wedding, Kent Murdock discovers the bride's former husband dead. The victim had arrived seeking blackmail money, and Murdock must penetrate a powerful family's determination to conceal its secrets before the killer escapes responsibility.

Julia boards a schooner seeking money from her former husband and is found suffocated the next morning. Barbados police investigate a tangle of competing claims, jealousy, and blackmail as the passengers' intertwined lives complicate the search for her killer.

Lawyer Jim Darrow is called to Panama City by the Army friend who once saved his life. Summoned to the man's nightclub headquarters, he must confront the obligation created by their shared wartime past and the favor now requested.

After an earlier shooting incident, reporter Stacy is found murdered in his apartment. His colleague Kent Murdock investigates, following encounters with two women and evidence of the victim's blackmail activities toward the person responsible for his death.

A newspaper photograph exposes a German refugee who fears an agent is pursuing her. Reporter Larry Palmer investigates her account of a vanished American husband, discovering that a circulation stunt may have drawn him into a dangerous conspiracy.

Ann destroys a note accusing her before discovering John Harrington dead in his room. While the family suspects a heart attack and she fears suicide, police call it murder, forcing her to uncover what happened before suspicion settles on her.

Kent Murdock recommends a retired policeman for private investigative work, then photographs documents for him without asking questions. When the investigator is murdered and the negatives vanish, Murdock feels responsible for uncovering the case that cost his friend his life.

Jeff Lane hires a detective to find his missing stepbrother in Caracas, then arrives after receiving news of progress. The investigator is murdered, followed by the missing man, leaving Jeff stranded among unfamiliar people and an increasingly dangerous mystery.

Diamond appraiser Barry Dawson reluctantly accepts one final job from a former associate who once cheated him. Hoping to finance his return home, he instead becomes trapped in a valuable stone transaction that offers no easy escape from violence.

Marina owner Don MacLaren rescues an unfamiliar woman from the water, then fights the wealthy man claiming to be her husband. When that man is found dead the next morning, MacLaren becomes the chief suspect and must uncover the island’s secrets.

Stopping to photograph a highway collision ruins Kent Murdock's plans for a quiet day of golf. Thugs demanding his film, a mysterious passenger, and an abandoned car pull him into a murder case whose answers strike unexpectedly close to home.

Nearly broke, Knox Randall accepts a job taking a cruiser from Miami to New York with seven passengers. News that the boat’s owner has been murdered transforms the voyage into a dangerous puzzle, with hidden motives aboard and trouble following along the shore.

Frieda's murder raises questions about the men who have been part of her life. Discovering which relationship concealed a lethal hatred turns the investigation toward her past and the dangerous consequences of her former attachments.

Journalist Rick Marston’s New Orleans holiday ends when armed men take him to meet his double. Pressured into a dangerous assignment involving South American politics, he turns toward a woman whose own motives may hold the key to escape.

Courtney Alsop's relationships with his daughter, sister, and fiancée create a volatile circle of resentments and complications. When he is killed, photographer Kent Murdock pursues a murderer whose willingness to strike again makes the investigation dangerous.

Photographer Jack Casey encounters an acquaintance drinking heavily in a neighborhood tavern while carrying a gun. His attempt to help pulls him into a case involving murder and blackmail, turning an ordinary visit into another investigation.

A blackmailer’s murder threatens John and Marion Hayden with prosecution over secrets involving her supposedly dead first husband. Armed with photographs and a hunch, John travels across the country searching for the man who may clear them.

Lawyer David Payne goes to Barbados to protect his mentor’s property from a swindle. The task becomes urgent when the professor’s daughter secretly follows with a gun, leaving David racing to prevent a financial dispute from turning deadly.

Architect Barry Sanford has fled repeated attempts on his life by a wealthy man blaming him for a fatal accident. When another threatening message reaches him in Belize, Barry must decide whether to keep running or confront his pursuer.

After safeguarding a colleague's film, Flash Casey wakes to gunmen demanding the negatives. Helping a stockbroker facing blackmail adds another complication, pulling the photographer into connected dangers that cannot be settled by simply handing the pictures back.

Kent Murdock accepts a locked suitcase for safekeeping from retired criminal lawyer Arnold Stanton. Burglary, a holdup, and a murder follow, forcing the photographer to uncover the connections before the suitcase's disappearance deepens the mystery.

The murder of a minor criminal draws physician and medical examiner Paul Standish into an investigation. As the case develops, its connections reach beyond the underworld and implicate prominent people whose standing may conceal more troubling associations.

Short of money and temporarily unemployed, Gary Manning agrees to impersonate someone while collecting a friend's debt in Panama. The assignment draws him into murder and smuggling, complicating what initially seemed a solution to his financial problems.

Alan Carlisle travels to Suriname seeking distance from personal troubles and work with a pilot serving the interior. Spotting a man who looks remarkably like him draws Carlisle into mistaken identities, pursuit, and a succession of murders.

An heiress named Carol Browning escapes from a mental institution, and her husband hires private investigator Jack Fenner to find her. The assignment centers on tracing a missing woman whose family has turned to professional help to locate her.

Alan Maxwell leaves his wife and architectural practice in Boston to skipper a boat in the Caribbean. His attempt to escape personal troubles turns dangerous when two murders make him the leading suspect in a wider web of intrigue.

A skyjacking drives this crime novel, which echoes the real-life case of D. B. Cooper and his escape after an aircraft hijacking.

An industrial family's tangled relationships and control of its business form the backdrop to murder. Jack Fenner investigates as resentment over marriage, divorce, and company power brings the household and its associates under increasingly uncomfortable scrutiny.

Private detective Jack Fenner discovers an unidentified body in his office, drawing him into a case involving stolen securities. A criminal organization's courier and a broker's troubled son connect the murder to wider financial wrongdoing.

After an artist known for blackmail is found murdered, photographer Kent Murdock becomes a suspect. The victim's relationships and the husbands angered by them complicate Murdock's efforts to determine who killed him and clear his own name.