_Books by GEORGE HARMON COXE_
_Murder with Pictures (1935)_
_The Barotique Mystery (1936)_
_The Camera Clue (1937)_
_Four Frightened Women (1939)_
_Murder for the Asking (1939)_
_The Glass Triangle (1939)_
_The Lady Is Afraid (1940)_
_No Time to Kill (1941)_
_Mrs. Murdock Takes a Case (1941)_
_Silent Are the Dead (1942)_
_Assignment in Guiana (1942)_
_The Charred Witness (1942)_
_Alias the Dead (1943)_
_Murder for Two (1943)_
_Murder in Havana (1943)_
_The Groom Lay Dead (1944)_
_The Jade Venus (1945)_
_Woman at Bay (1945)_
_Dangerous Legacy (1946)_
_The Fifth Key (1947)_
_Fashioned for Murder (1947)_
_Venturous Lady (1948)_
_The Hollow Needle (1948)_
_Lady Killer (1949)_
_Inland Passage (1949)_
_Eye Witness (1950)_
_The Frightened Fiancée (1950)_
_The Widow Had a Gun (1951)_
_The Man Who Died Twice (1951)_
_Never Bet Your Life (1952)_
_The Crimson Clue (1953)_
_Uninvited Guest (1953)_
_Focus on Murder (1954)_
_Death at the Isthmus (1954)_
_Top Assignment (1955)_
_Suddenly a Widow (1956)_
_Man on a Rope (1956)_
_Murder on Their Minds (1957)_
_One Minute Past Eight (1957)_
_The Impetuous Mistress (1958)_
_The Big Gamble (1958)_
_Slack Tide (1959)_
_Triple Exposure (1959) CONTAINING_
_The Glass Triangle, The Jade Venus, & The Fifth Key_
_One Way Out (1960)_
_The Last Commandment (1960)_
_Error of Judgment (1961)_
_Moment of Violence (1961)_
_The Man Who Died Too Soon (1962)_
_Mission of Fear (1962)_
THESE ARE BORZOI BOOKS, PUBLISHED IN NEW YORK BY
_ALFRED A. KNOPF_
_MISSION OF FEAR_
Sam Adler appeared one afternoon at Marion Hayden’s door trying for
the big payoff--Blackmail. The next day he was dead--paid off with a
knife in the back--and for the Haydens the nightmare had just begun.
Adler’s story had been stunning enough before--now, with State Police
Lieutenant Garvey pushing hard it could mean a murder indictment for
both of them. And Garvey kept the questions coming fast--questions
that all reduced to one: Was Ted Corbin alive? Ted Corbin--Marion
Hayden’s ex-husband, and by every evidence dead these two years in an
airplane accident.
Doris Lamar knew some of the answers--but she had her own good
reasons for keeping them to herself.
John Hayden didn’t have any answers--yet. But he did have two
photographs and a hunch; and that was why he was traveling
desperately across the country now--in search of a dead man.
For if Corbin were alive he might know all the answers--might very
well _be_ the answer.
This was John Hayden’s last chance: he had to find Corbin ... he
_had_ to find him.
The pace and tension build in every page of this tale of greed,
jealousy and hatred by the dean of American mystery writers. Here is
one of George Harmon Coxe’s neatest, briskest performances.