James Holding: 33 books

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....

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

The Photographer is hired to kill a man using a model to smuggle heroin into the U.S. Evesdropping, 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!

Two mystery readers meet on a plane. One reads crime stories to pass the time. The other reads them to keep abreast up with the trade…

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.

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

The Photographer is hired to kill an executive at a chemical company, but as he prepares for the job, the man is kidnapped by the Brazilian Liberation Party, who seek to hold him for ransom.

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

She thought she knew what her husband was really up to. But if she's known -- she would have screamed, "Murder!"

A mentally ill woman waits outside a school to pick up a child with a passing resemblance to her daughter. After following a likely candidate, she persuades the girl to get in her car -- and that's where things really go wrong.

Rodolfo urges the Photographer to assassinate a nightclub singer who is going to publish a book full of incriminating information on everyone involved with the Corporation. Suspicious, the Photographer investigates…

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

Charlie Draper believes there are two ways of doing things: the easy way and the hard way. Anyone who chooses the hard way, he insists, is a fool. So why does he take the hard way when his story is robbed?