{"id":31368,"date":"2022-05-14T00:01:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T06:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/?p=31368"},"modified":"2022-05-13T09:32:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T15:32:18","slug":"book-review-deadly-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/book-review-deadly-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Deadly Image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=as_ss_li_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=adamsblog03-20&amp;language=en_US&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B0060OEMC2&amp;asins=B0060OEMC2&amp;linkId=3c5aca709afa53fd46afb0a285c26101&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-popups allow-scripts allow-modals allow-forms allow-same-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Casey notices an old friend who manages his small investment getting uncharacteristically roaring drunk at a bar. The man&#8217;s wife asks for a ride home and Casey is asked to hold some film for another photographer, film that is going to be more than a bit dangerous for him. Before he knows it, the veteran crime photographer has a web of murder and blackmail to untangle.<\/p>\n<p>This novel, featuring the character of Jack Casey, was published in 1962, well after the character&#8217;s heyday in the 1930s and 1940s. Yet the writing of George Harmon Coxe, who&#8217;d written another photographer mystery series in the intervening years, remained exactly the same. In fact if you were to level a criticism of the book, it would be that it doesn&#8217;t feel like a book from 1962, with very few clues to its more recent vintage. The big one is that Casey has a small investment portfolio. It&#8217;s hard to imagine a hard boiled character in the 1930s investing in the stock market given how skittish people were after the Crash.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond that, it&#8217;s a very well-written mystery with a lot of elements to it, more than you would expect for a book of its relatively short length. However, it&#8217;s easy to follow and the clues are all there if you&#8217;re paying attention. Casey remains the same honorable and decent guy he always was, and the story holds your attention throughout.<\/p>\n<p>After reading three of his books, my opinion of Coxe as a writer is that he&#8217;s not one of those brilliant must-read writers of the classics of detective fiction like Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett. However, Coxe was talented and wrote diverting smart mysteries that are worth a look. I put him in the same category as Britt Halliday and plan on visiting some of his other works.<\/p>\n<p>This was a fun book and it won&#8217;t be the last time, I read one of Coxe&#8217;s novels.<\/p>\n<p>Rating: 3.75 out of 5<\/p>\n<p><em>This post contains affiliate links, which means that items purchased from these links may result in a commission being paid to the author of this post at no extra cost to the purchaser.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casey notices an old friend who manages his small investment getting uncharacteristically roaring drunk at a bar. The man&#8217;s wife asks for a ride home and Casey is asked to hold some film for another photographer, film that is going to be more than a bit dangerous for him. Before he knows it, the veteran&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[63,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-golden-age-article"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pECdK-89W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31368"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31398,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31368\/revisions\/31398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}