George Harmon Coxe

The Big Gamble, first published in 1958, is part of master noir-writer George Harmon Coxes' "Kent Murdock" suspense series. Murdock, a photographer for a Boston newspaper, inadvertently becomes involved in a case of murder after photographing a traffic accident. From the original publisher's preface: A day of golf was all Kent Murdock had in mind when he left the office, but a pile-up on the highway made him stop to take a few pictures just as any...