Kent Murdock Mystery Books in Order

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.