Helen Mccloy

The Deadly Truth

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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 minute dinner party with a special cocktail, Basil's relaxing holiday takes a turn. It seems Claudia's drink

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ISBN: 978-1-914904-53-0
EAN: 9781914904530
Produktnummer: 37267704
Verlag: Agora Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
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.