Photographer

The second installment in James Holding's classic "The Photographer" series about a professional assassin. One of his best series.

When the Photographer is hired to kill the police commandant of Lisbon, he concocts an elaborate scheme to frame his fellow plane passenger, a man named Verahos, of the crime...

The fourth installment in James Holding's classic "The Photographer" series about a professional assassin. One of his best series.

The fifth installment in James Holding's classic "The Photographer" series about a professional assassin. One of his best series.

The sixth installment in James Holding's classic "The Photographer" series about a professional assassin. One of his best series.

In "Second Talent," Manuel, Holding's photographer assassin, is assigned to kill a rare art collector, Senhor Martinho. But Martinho has plans of his own...

When the Photographer is hired to kill a servant, he finds more than a mere thief plundering employers' homes...

The photographer is hired to kill an artist - who moonlights as a forger.

The Photographer latest assignment: identify and kill The Butcher, a rival killer. Noting that The Butcher's victims show no signs of struggle, are all ugly, and wore topaz jewelry in bad taste, he deduces that The Butcher is a demented interior decorator. But nothing is ever quite as it seems...

Criminally underpaid assassin Manuel Andredas is hired to kill a famous jockey - for a particularly paltry sum.

The Photographer is hired to kill a man who is using a model to smuggle heroin into the U.S...but the model double-crosses him with unexpected results.

The Photographer is hired to kill a man using a model to smuggle heroin into the U.S. Eavesdropping, he learns that the model double-crossed his victim, hired the Big Ones to have the man killed, and wants to sell her heroin to the Big Ones. Double-cross after double-cross follows!

When the Photographer is hired to kill a printer, he finds layers of deception, counterfeit money, and blackmail. #15 in the classic series from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.

The Photographer wakes in a coffin, and flashes back to a meeting where he is hired to kill a one-armed man - who has gotten the drop on him. Will he live long enough to complete his mission? #17 in the classic series.

In the February 24, 1982 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, the editor offered the following challenge to the Author: "A plot idea for the next Photographer story: when Manuel looks at the name and address on the slip of paper handed to him by Rodolfo, he reads his own name and address. He has been given the assignment to nullify himself! How does the Photographer give positive proof to the Big Ones (no trick photo) of his own death, collect his murderer's fee, and still remain alive to tell the tale?" James Holding immediately took up the awe-inspiring challenge and the following story is the result-an unforgettable chapter in the murky career of Manuel Andradas you will read with fascination from the first line to the last (no peeking)!

When the Photographer refuses to take an assignment - killing the nephew of General Da Silva, junta member - the Corporation finds a replacement...one not quite up to the job.