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Alias Basil Willing
By Helen McCloy. 2014
Psychiatrist-sleuth Dr Basil Willing is in a tobacconist's in Manhattan when another customer follows him into the shop, buys cigarettes,…
and leaves in a hurry. The man hails a taxi to take him to 51st street with the instruction: 'Come back and call for me; I am Dr Basil Willing.'Intrigued, the real Basil Willing hails a second taxi and finds himself at a formal dinner party given by a psychiatrist for his patients, who do not really seem at ease there - and later he discovers the horrifying reason why ...Through a Glass, Darkly
By Helen McCloy. 2014
Gisela von Hohenems joins the teaching staff of an exclusive girls' school in upstate New York, where she befriends fellow…
newcomer Faustina Coyle. But a climate of fear surrounds Faustina, and after several strange incidents that defy rational explanation, she is forced to resign.Gisela asks her fiancé, detective-psychologist Dr Basil Willing, to investigate in this highly acclaimed horror-mystery with shades of M. R. James.The Man in the Moonlight
By Helen McCloy. 2014
In the second case featuring psychiatrist-sleuth Basil Willing, he is called to a university campus to help investigate the death…
of a scientist. It looks like suicide, but with local scandal aplenty, more murders in the mix and a dose of Nazi espionage, all may not be as it appears.Crime On Their Hands
By Dell Shannon. 1969
When a con-man with many aliases is found shot dead in his car, there is only one clue - a…
single word that he had scrawled on a memo-pad as he was dying - and the suspects are many. Enter Lieutenant Mendoza and his team at the Los Angeles Police Department, who approach the case with their usual tenacity and a dash of flair . . .Dance of Death
By Helen McCloy. 1938
When a prominent New York socialite is murdered by means of an overdose of medication, it takes Dr Basil Willing,…
a psychiatrist attached to the police department, to solve the case.But mysterious accidents start occurring during his investigation, and Willing must look deeper to uncover the motive and prevent the murderer from striking again ...Alter Ego
By Dell Shannon. 1988
Mystery writer Brendan Monroe is tormented by the fear that his flamboyant fictional detective P. I. Roy Barron has come…
to life. Is the author losing his mind? Or is someone making it seem that way?When Barron is found dead, Sergeant Dan Valentine of the Santa Monica police focuses his investigation on the local chapter of the Mystery Writers of America, where he faces the fascinating challenge of trying to trap a murderer whose profession is devising diabolical plots.'My favourite American crime-writer' New York Herald TribuneCold Trail
By Dell Shannon. 1978
The body of a woman from respectable, conservative Glendale is found stashed under a ramshackle house in the middle of…
the inner city. Detective Luis Mendoza marks the rising heat by the crime and violence raging through the sun-baked streets of Los Angeles - and it's going to be a hot one . . . A thug is shot to death. A mysterious string of robberies continues unabated . . . all without a clue. But the family-man cop knows that where there's heat there's fire - and a cold trail to nowhere promises to turn into a red-hot path leading straight to the damned.No Villain Need Be
By Dell Shannon. 1979
Famous LAPD husband and wife sleuths Sergeant Ivor and Detective Sue Maddox return again, this time juggling half a dozen…
investigations at once. Balancing solving the cases of an enterprising team of daytime burglars, a scandalous sex ring and suspicious-seeming fatal accidents, they are stretched to the limit when a grandmother and her two-year-old granddaughter are discovered murdered . . .No Holiday for Crime
By Dell Shannon. 1973
There's no holiday from crime at the Los Angeles Police Department, not even at Christmas. Among a string of bizarre…
cases, there's the very mysterious killing of Lila Askell, the young devout Mormon who was on her way home for Christmas but is found strangled and thrown out of a car. As the Christmas trees are being decorated and the presents wrapped, Lieutenant Luis Mendoza has one of his toughest cases on his hands...A Question of Time
By Helen Mccloy. 1971
They told Lisa she was the daughter of an American aristocrat and an Italian princess both of whom died shortly…
after Lisa's birth. They told Lisa she was heiress to a vast Boston fortune, and that her American family cherished her and wanted her to stay with them.At first Lisa tried to believe it all. Then she tried to separate the truth from the lies. Finally, she would know one thing for sure. Somebody or something was out to destroy her . . .The Singing Diamonds and Other Stories
By Helen Mccloy. 1965
In this collection of eight stories by one of America's most gifted writers, Helen McCloy takes the reader into a…
world of mystery and imagination.In the signature story - 'The Singing Diamonds' - Mathilde Verworn enlists the help of Basil Willing, a psychiatrist-sleuth, to answer the question of whether there is such a thing as collective hallucination. Six people from six different locations have testified to seeing diamond-shaped objects in the sky, and four of those six have died in peculiar circumstances in the past twelve days . . .A Change of Heart
By Helen Mccloy. 1973
Girzel Graeme looked on her father as the embodiment of all that was wise and good. But now her father…
lay in a hospital hovering between life and death, and the evil that struck him down reached out to claim his daughter.What terrifying secret did her father's past conceal? What horrifying act could he have committed? And what nameless danger threatened his daughter as she followed the lure of a fabulous jewel into a labyrinth of deceit, on the trail of a mysterious man who could save her faith in her father - or destroy both it and her.Before I Die
By Helen Mccloy. 1963
Kyra Novacs: Who was she? Where did she come from? Bob knew almost nothing about her, just enough to fall…
hopelessly in love with her. They were thrown together for business reasons and, believing her to be single, he threw caution to the wind.But Kyra isn't single. And when her husband is killed in the midst of an argument over divorce, it falls to Bob's loyal wife of seventeen years, Susan, to prove his innocence . . .'Miss McCloy compels you to read every word' ObserverMr Splitfoot
By Helen McCloy. 1968
To wake the devil, Lucinda summoned the arch fiend with the ancient invocation, and from the secret room where her…
friend Vanya had agreed to hide came the eerie response. The rapping called up all the terror of the old tales, and the joke was going marvellously.Until Lucinda realised that Vanya had never arrived at the old house ...Who's Calling?
By Helen McCloy. 1942
The engagement of Archie, a young doctor, to night club artiste Frieda evokes ghostly phenomena when Archie takes Frieda to…
visit his mother near Washington. Untraceable phone calls, vandalism - and a murder - all happen before Dr Basil Willing, psychologist-sleuth, takes over and solves the mystery.How to Live Dangerously
By Joan Fleming. 1974
A splendid war record in Naval intelligence and a disastrous marriage left Martin Pendle Hill alone, leading an uneventful life…
in a pleasant Oxford upper maisonette. He had a good friend and a black Labrador as a companion. But when both these die, Pendle Hill accidently falls and breaks his thigh in his distress. The accident sparks a change of heart and after sixty-five years he decides he is going to live dangerously. Without permission from his stern landlady in the flat downstairs he fills his life with bright young people by taking in lodgers. Meanwhile, his landlady has embarked upon a plan for her old age, which has within it the seeds of disaster.'Done with indefinable, inimitable warmth that characterises Fleming; this one's a joy' San Francisco ChronicleAlas Poor Father
By Joan Fleming. 1972
Brigadier Basil Patricott, presently engaged on hush hush business for the foreign office, is a man able to cope with…
anything - except his two small motherless sons. As a result they run wild in the company of an eccentric Irish pigeon fancier, living with his sinister brother in a house of mysterious locked doors. Then one of the boys goes exploring, and what he sees behind those doors marks him down for immediate death. 'She has the gift of creating instantly credible characters' Sunday Times 'Twists and turns all over the place' ObserverThe Ha-Ha Case
By J. J. Connington. 2014
It was at the hidden stone wall in the spinney that Johnnie Brandon, rabbit shooting with a party of guests,…
was instantly killed by a shotgun charge. That day he had attained his majority, but the night before he had been discovered in a compromising situation with the wife of the man who had been his mentor. The inquest ruled 'accidental death' but Inspector Hinton was soon to discover that it was murder that was the motive . . .Hell's Belle
By Joan Fleming. 2013
She was sitting in a café in Paris, showing nearly all her legs; in grave trouble, she was drinking her…
sixth green Chartreuse and wishing she knew someone who would kill her stepmother for her. She was just eighteen, a child emotionally but old in experience and duplicity.The man with the umbrella who sat down at her table seemed exactly the one for whom she was searching. They were both lonely and found in each other the playmate for which they had longed. He was a man caught in a monster trap; it was murder she wanted and murder she got.Death of a Sardine
By Joan Fleming. 2013
Brigadier Warrington thinks of himself as a well-moneyed playboy. His main wish is to please his son Tom, but his…
main desire is unsuitable women. This time it's Irma, a mysterious adventuress, unfortunately married to a certain militant Herr Gantzenhausen. When Tom arrives at his father's villa at Trigoso he takes an immediate dislike to Irma. Then there's the threatened appearance of her husband that hangs like thunder round the villa and reduces its inhabitants to a state of siege. The murder comes almost as a relief ...'One of the funniest moments of truth in recent fiction' Financial Times