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Helen McCloy
Full Series List in Order
Dr. Basil Willing
1 - Dance of Death (1938)2 - The Man In The Moonlight (1940)
3 - The Deadly Truth (1941)
4 - Who's Calling? (1942)
5 - Cue for Murder (1942)
6 - The Goblin Market (1943)
7 - The One That Got Away (May-1994)
8 - Through A Glass Darkly (1950)
9 - Alias Basil Willing (1951)
10 - The Long Body (1955)
11 - Two-Thirds of a Ghost (1956)
12 - Mr. Splitfoot (1968)
13 - Burn This (1980)
Book List in Order: 34 titles
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Dance of Death
- 1938
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‘Mrs Jocelyn,’ said Basil, evenly, ‘the most disillusioning thing about being a psychiatrist is discovering how many kind relatives wish that other members of their family could be declared insane.’ When a New York socialite is found dead ...
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The Man In The Moonlight
- 1940
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I take pleasure in informing you that you have been chosen as murderer for Group No 1. Please follow these instructions with as great exactness as possible. On his way to visit the dean at Yorkville University, Assistant Chief Inspector Foyle seems...
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The Deadly Truth
- 1941
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‘Truth is always unpleasant and usually intolerable.’ When psychiatrist Dr Basil Willing rents a cottage on Long Island for a vacation, he falls into the company of his landlady, Claudia Bethune and her friends. But when Claudia throws a last ...
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Cue for Murder
- 1942
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A murder has taken place on stage and it seems that one of three people must be guilty. The crime was committed in full view of the audience and players, but no one can say whom the murderer is. There appear to be no clues, the suspects are all we...
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Who's Calling?
- 1942
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Who’s Calling? is the fifth book in Helen McCloy’s Dr Basil Willing Mystery series. Wouldn’t you like to know what a poltergeist is? The engagement of Archie, a young doctor, to night club artiste Frieda sets off a sequence of ...
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The Goblin Market
- 1943
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It's 1943, and down-on-his-luck American expat Philip Stark is on the Caribbean island of Santa Teresa. The prewar destination playground is deserted now except for diplomats and oil refinery workers. When a local correspondent dies, Stark sees a cha...
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Through A Glass Darkly
- 1950
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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 ex...
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Alias Basil Willing
- 1951
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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 c...
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The Long Body
- 1955
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A prominent American diplomat falls over a cliff to his death. The death is accepted as an accident, but could it have been suicide - or even murder? His widow finds a locked drawer in his desk and in it a file with a woman's name on it - but the fil...
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Two-Thirds of a Ghost
- 1956
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Two-Thirds of a Ghost, a Dr. Basil Willing Mystery, by Helen McCloy“One of the most enjoyable whodunits of this or any season. Reason: Its gorgeous satire on the book publishing business and the people in it or on the fringes.” -- Columbus Dispat...
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Mr. Splitfoot
- 1968
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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 ...
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A Question of Time
- 1971
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They told Lisa she was the daughter of an American aristocrat and an Italian princess, both of whom had died shortly after Lisa's birth. They told Lisa she was heiress to a vast Boston fortune, and that her American family cherished her awl wanted...
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The One That Got Away
- May-1994
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A castle, a deserted village, and murder in the Scottish Highlands When child psychologist and US Naval Intelligence officer Lieutenant Peter Dunbar takes on a secret mission in the Scottish Highlands at the end of World War II, he finds himself draw...
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Pleasant Assassin and Other Cases of Dr. Basil Willing
- Feb-2003
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"Remarkable, Highly Imaginative, Fiercely Independent" With these words, B. A. Pike in Detective Fiction: The Collector's Guide described the extraordinary novels and short stories of Helen McCloy (1904-1993). Beginning with Dance of Death (1938), he...
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Better Off Dead
- Mar-2014
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After 15 years of living elsewhere under an assumed name - one he has made famous by becoming a successful writer - Frank Bly, aka Stephen Longworth, returns to the town where an attempt was made on his life, and from which he escaped leaving no c...
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The Singing Diamonds and Other Stories
- Mar-2014
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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 ...
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Before I Die
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.
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A Change of Heart
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 se...
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The Changeling Conspiracy // Cruel As The Grave
Adam Endicott did not want Sam Joel as a husband for his young daughter, Kate. Sam was fifteen years older than Kate, he never talked about his past, which had been spent largely in the Far East, and he had no visible assets but his meager salary as ...
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The Crime of My Life
A VERY SPECIAL MYSTERY ANTHOLOGY FEATURING THE BEST BY THE BEST…In 1984, Mystery Writers of America brought together a roster of authors that has rarely been equaled before or since. Every living MWA President (including several who were also ...
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Do Not Disturb
From Book 1: Douglas Arthur Bader
“Atlanta’s Most Eligible Bachelor” has it all. His career was on the rise at Whitman Stacks, LLC., a law firm located on the perimeter of Atlanta. His cell phone rang constantly of women who wanted to ... -
The Further Side of Fear
Lydia Grey, an American returning to London after many years, is woken by footsteps in the night. There is someone in her room - of that she is sure. But that is also impossible. There is only one door and it is bolted shut. The windows are eight ...
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He Never Came Back
An attractive but short-sighted New York girl picks up a pendant from a twenty-cent jewelery stall and is surprised to find herself the centre of some strange events. A man is run over- not quite by accident, her boyfriend disappears, a Burmese shows...
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Impostor
Maria Skinner recovers consciousness after a car crash to find herself in a psychiatric clinic. She remembers the crash quite clearly but she is told that she is suffering from delusions - and must not leave hospital.
She tries to contact he...
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Minotaur Country
Tatiana 'Tash' Perkins, a brilliant young journalist, is sent by her paper to interview the State Governor's wife, and a strange interview it is: the woman behaves like a zombie, and when they are alone together she slips a letter to Tash and asks...
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Panic
When Uncle Felix dies of a suspected overdose of digitalis, his niece Alison accepts the offer of a remote mountain lodge for the summer to get away from the tragedy.
But there are strange noises in the night and sinister visitors - and she ...
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She Walks Alone
A woman dies by violence aboard the Santa Cristina. A radio flash from the West Indies brings word of an apparently related death. A man's body turns up, and in his hand is a suicide note written in one woman's handwriting but signed with another ...
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The Slayer & the Slain
Harry Vaughan's uncle has just passed away, providing the young man with a colossal fortune. Giving up his job, Harry goes back to his roots - and to Celia, the woman he loves.
But Harry Vaughan has lost part of his memory. He feels himself ...
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The Sleepwalker
Marian Tansey appears to be living a happy life. She has great friends, a job in a thrift shop, and she has just bought a new car. She may even be falling in love with Dick Lang, who sold it to her. She could be on top of the world, but there are ...
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The Smoking Mirror
Celia McNeill is under arrest during her vacation to France and, desperate for cash, she makes a deal with card master Sergei Radetzkoy, whom she meets while being detained in Dieppe.
He says he's just lucky at cards, but the crooks who foll...
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Unfinished Business
An attractive but short-sighted New York girl picks up a pendant from a twenty-cent jewellery stall and is surprised to find herself the centre of some strange events. A man is run over- not quite by accident, her boyfriend disappears, a Burmese show...
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Unfinished Crime
When Sara Dacre comes across a large red pendant at a twenty cent jewellery stall she is tempted to buy it - especially when she bumps into her friend Gerry Hone, who persuades her that it will brighten up her old grey taffeta.
But soon she ...
Award-Winning Books by Helen McCloy
1980 Nero Wolfe Award -- Novel