Helen Mccloy

Dance of Death

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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 in a snow bank, no one can believe it is debutante Kitty Jocelyn - let alone that she has died of heatstroke.How has she ended up here, dead on the morning after her coming-out party? Why is she wearing someone else's clothes? What was the cause of her fatal overdose? As the questions around Kitty's death mount, psychologist Dr Basil Willing is brought in to get the the bottom of her death.With the help of In… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-1-914904-52-3
EAN: 9781914904523
Produktnummer: 37267702
Verlag: Agora Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
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.