Baynard Kendrick

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Baynard Kendrick wrote whodunit mystery novels about Duncan Maclain, a blind private investigator who worked with his two German shepherds and his household of assistants to solve murder mysteries. The novels were the basis for two films starring Edward Arnold, Eyes in the Night[1] (1942) and The Hidden Eye[2] (1945).

Contents

[edit] Duncan Maclain novels[3]

  • The Last Express (1937)
  • The Whistling Hangman (1937)
  • Odor of Violets (1941) (aka Eyes in the Night)
  • Blind Man's Bluff (1943)
  • Death Knell (1945)
  • Out of Control (1945)
  • Make Mine Maclain (three novelets) (1947)
  • The Murderer Who Wanted More (Dell Ten-Cent edition, 1951, one of the three novelets from Make Mine Maclain, q.v.)
  • You Die Today (1952)
  • Blind Allies (1954)
  • Clear and Present Danger (1958)
  • Reservations for Death (1958)
  • The Aluminum Turtle (1960) (aka The Spear Gun Murders)
  • Frankincense and Murder (1961)

[edit] Miles Standish Rice novels

  • The Eleven of Diamonds (1936)
  • The Iron Spiders (1936) (aka The Iron Spiders Murder)
  • Death Beyond the Go-Thru (1938)

[edit] Non-series novels

  • Blood on Lake Louisa (1934)
  • The Tunnel (1949)
  • Hot Red Money (1959)
  • Flight from a Firing Wall (1966)

[edit] External links

Watch the public-domain film, Eyes in the Night. Accessed March 24, 2008

[edit] References

  1. ^ IMDB page accessed March 24, 2008
  2. ^ IMDB page accessed March 24, 2008
  3. ^ Hubin, Allen J. Crime Fiction, 1749-1980: A comprehensive bibliography. New York and London, Garland Publishing. 1980. ISBN 0824092198
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