Helen Mccloy

Cue for Murder

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Dr Basil Willing must separate the actors from the liars in the meta-narrative mystery.'Its a world of make-believe - false names and false faces! How can I tell which one of these is playing a part?' On the New York stage, the scene is set for what appears to be the perfect murder. Within the first act of opening night, an actor is found dead during his scene, in full view of the audience and players. Even stranger, no one recognises the murdered man.But when all three suspects are trained in deception, figuring out which of them is the killer won't be easy... Enter Dr Basil Willing. With the help of Assistant Chief Inspector Foyle, the psyc… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-914904-51-6
EAN: 9781914904516
Produktnummer: 37268079
Verlag: Agora Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 278 S.
Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor

Helen McCloy was born in New York city in 1904 to writer Helen Worrell McCloy and managing editor William McCloy. After discovering a love for Sherlock Holmes as young girl, McCloy began writing her own mystery novels in the 1930s. In 1933, she introduced her psychiatrist-detective Dr Basil Willing in her first novel, Dance of Death . Dr Basil Willing features in twelve of McCloy's novels as well as several short stories; however, both are best known from McCloy's 1955 supernatural mystery Through a Glass, Darkly - hailed as her masterpiece and likened to John Dickson Carr. McCloy went on in the 1950s and 1960s to co-author a review column a Connecticut newspaper. In 1950, she became the first female president of Mystery Writers of America and in 1953, she was honoured with an Edgar Award from the MWA for her critiques.