The last commandment

"A combination of accident, design, coincidence, and luck had brought him here this afternoon, and he knew he was in for a rough time. . . ." But what Kent Murdock didn't know was that a luscious brunette, a struggling actor, a calculating spinster, and a day in the country would all add up to murder. When he was asked to take pictures of a birthday party at Courtney Alsop's home in Chestnut Hill, Murdock sent a crackajack news-photographer in his place—Jules Ragan. That afternoon Ragan dropped off the film in Murdock's office, and just a few hours later he was dead—with two bullet holes in…