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Helen Reilly
Full Series List in Order
Christopher McKee
1 - The Diamond Feather (Nov-1977)2 - Murder in the Mews (1931)
3 - McKee of Centre Street (May-1995)
4 - The Line-Up (1934)
5 - Mr. Smith's Hat (1936)
6 - Dead Man Control (1936)
7 - Dead for a Ducat (1939)
8 - All Concerned Notified (Jul-1991)
9 - Murder in Shinbone Alley (1940)
10 - Death Demands An Audience (1940)
11 - The Dead Can Tell (1981)
12 - Mourned On Sunday (1941)
13 - Three Women in Black (1941)
14 - Name Your Poison (1942)
15 - The Opening Door ()
16 - Murder on Angler's Island (Jan-1993)
17 - The Silver Leopard (1972)
18 - The Farmhouse (1947)
19 - Staircase 4 (1949)
20 - Murder at Arroways (1950)
21 - Lament for the Bride (1951)
22 - The Double Man (1952)
23 - The Velvet Hand (1953)
24 - Tell Her It's Murder (1954)
25 - Compartment K (1955)
26 - The Canvas Dagger ()
26 - Not Me, Inspector (1959)
27 - Ding Dong Bell (1958)
29 - Follow Me (1960)
30 - Certain Sleep (1961)
31 - The Day She Died ()
Book List in Order: 33 titles
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Murder in the Mews
- 1931
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“TIE HER UP!” The masked man’s gun was pointed straight at Joan. She had seen him kill before. One look at his eyes gleaming through the mask told her he would not hesitate to kill again. Suddenly two men in strange leather aprons rushed ...
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The Line-Up
- 1934
- / Romantic Suspense
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DAISIES NEVER TELL… …and Daisy Arden was no exception. Only she knew the answers to some of the questions McKee as asking: Who was Mrs. Van Sant, the unknown woman who visited Timothy Arden the day before he was killed? Why were the four c...
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Dead Man Control
- 1936
- / Romantic Suspense
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FENNIMORE KINGSTON WAS THE CORPSE WHO HAD EVERYTHING… …a beautiful young wife, a mysterious mistress -- and a fortune in jewels. Now he had his final reward -- a bullet in the back! There was plenty of suspects…from the chauffeur he had ...
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Mr. Smith's Hat
- 1936
- / Romantic Suspense
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“MY GOD! THE G.W.W..” Those were the last words in Gilbert Shannon’s diary. A fatal blow on the head ended the sentence for him -- and McKee was faced with another unsolvable puzzle. But what did the strange words mean? A clod of earth...
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Death Demands An Audience
- 1940
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THE MURDERER WASN’T SHY… One victim was killed in a department store window. Another died before the startled eyes of a policeman on guard duty. The third breathed his last in a crowd of people coming out of a theater. Then the murder...
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Murder in Shinbone Alley
- 1940
- / Romantic Suspense
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SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL, BORED, AND BOUND FOR TROUBLE… She had too much time on her hands, too much money, a passion for collecting men and no scruples at all about how she got them. Many people hated her -- and one of the proved it by shoving her off...
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Three Women in Black
- 1941
- / Romantic Suspense
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EIGHTY PEOPLE SAW HIM MURDERED… Dr. Gilbert Shane stood alone on a brightly-lighted stage, all eyes upon him as he joked and laughed. And then: “His voice stopped. An expression of surprise crossed his face and his eyes widened. They became...
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Name Your Poison
- 1942
- / Romantic Suspense
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Name Your Poison by Helen Reilly, an Inspector McKee MysteryAs McKee follows the trail of a very ambitious poisoner, he finds the next victim on her way from a Connecticut mansion…stuffed in a trunk. “The case is probably the most complicated on...
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The Farmhouse
- 1947
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“Nell Shevlin’s womanly intuition works overtime after she arrives at her old homestead to rest and ponder a proposal of marriage. … Miss Reilly again reveals her artistry by producing a tale in which terror and menace are well sustained and p...
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Staircase 4
- 1949
- / Romantic Suspense
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Death strikes down a man on the eve of his wedding to a lovely girl. The verdict is suicide, but the girl is certain it is murder -- certain because of a closing door. Inspector McKee wonders, too, and soon both he and the girl have their hands full ...
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Lament for the Bride
- 1951
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Inspector McKee is drawn into a thrilling case of poison pen letters and murder which takes to the plush atmosphere of St. Augustine and Key West where someone is trying to kill Horace Fescue, the well-known financier....
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The Velvet Hand
- 1953
- / Romantic Suspense
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Darlings -- Don’t worry about me. You’ll be hearing from us in a few days. The unsigned note clearly written in a state of emotional upset and left on the dresser in Libby’s disordered room indicated an elopement. That was shocking enough to...
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Tell Her It's Murder
- 1954
- / Romantic Suspense
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Tell Her It's Murder, an Inspector McKee mystery Recollection began to come back. It wasn’t a lumpy mattress he was lying on, it was a dead man -- a man called Midnight Mike. ... His pain-filled mind curled in terror. It threw him two years bac...
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Compartment K
- 1955
- / Romantic Suspense
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INSPECTOR MCKEE’S MISSION began as a hunt for a suspect. Routine case -- just a few questions. Nothing serious. But among the small group of passengers he was watching on the luxury train, he was to discover that “routine” can so easily bec...
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Not Me, Inspector
- 1959
- / Romantic Suspense
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The Opening Door, first published in 1943 by author Helen Reilly, is a murder-mystery featuring New York City police inspector Christopher McKee, who is called in to solve the puzzling death of a young socialite. From the book cover: “This is the s...
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Certain Sleep
- 1961
- / Romantic Suspense
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ACCIDENT? SUICIDE? OR MURDER? The long, low silver car stood alone in the new parking lot, Hester Lansing was behind the wheel of the car. She was not only dead, she had been dead for a good many hours and the car still reeked of liquor. Her sof...
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The Dead Can Tell
- 1981
- / Romantic Suspense
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“The letters forming the name 'Sara Hazard' and the word 'murdered' were in large caps.” The death of Sara Hazard, a Manhattan socialite, was first deemed an accidental drowning. This patch-work letter claimed otherwise and is sufficiently convin...
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All Concerned Notified
- Jul-1991
- / Romantic Suspense
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THERE WAS A Body in Room 1008 She was lying face down -- and very dead -- when Inspector McKee first saw her. A plain middle-aged woman with dark hair and glasses, she had been struck over the head repeatedly with a hammer. She wore only a kimo...
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McKee of Centre Street
- May-1995
- / Romantic Suspense
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A speakeasy performer is murdered in this pioneering mystery from the mother of the police procedural. When one of New York’s favorite dancers is killed in a crowded high-tone speakeasy, everyone present becomes a suspect -- and those that may have...
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The Doll's Trunk Murder
Her eyes were pools of FRIGHT. Norah Tait stared out of the window. Fear held her body rigid. Suddenly she turned to the man at the inn table with her. “Let’s go, Hilary!” At once!” What had Norah seen in the gathering storm? She would n...
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The Opening Door
The Opening Door, first published in 1943 by author Helen Reilly, is a murder-mystery featuring New York City police inspector Christopher McKee, who is called in to solve the puzzling death of a young socialite. From the book cover: “This is the s...