Helen McCloy Bücher
6. Juni 1904 – 1. Dezember 1994
Helen McCloy war eine amerikanische Krimiautorin, die für ihre Romanfigur Dr. Basil Willing bekannt ist. Willing glaubt, dass „jeder Verbrecher psychische Fingerabdrücke hinterlässt, die er nicht verbergen kann.“ McCloy nutzte häufig das Motiv des Doppelgängers, lieferte aber am Ende ihrer Geschichten stets eine psychologische oder realistische Erklärung für scheinbar übernatürliche Ereignisse, um die Komplexität menschlicher Motivationen zu enthüllen.
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Two-thirds of a Ghost
- 228 Seiten
- 8 Lesestunden
According to Amazon: Publisher Tony Kane and his wife host a party in honor of best-selling author Amos Cottle at their Connecticut home. But all eyes are on the guests when an unseen hand slips cyanide into Cottle's drink. Also present at the party is Basil Willing, a psychiatrist-sleuth who soon figures out that Cottle was not the man that his jacket-flap blurb said he was. Willing embarks on a course of literary detection, scouting for clues in book reviews, publisher correspondence, and other documents related to this rather ghostly writer ...--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Adam Endicott did not want Sam Joel as a husband for his young daughter, Kate. His past was sketchy and, as a reporter on a small-town newspaper, his assets were meagre. Yet when Kate is abducted by a terrorist group, Sam is able to produce a large part of the ransom. But paying the terrorists' demand does not bring back Kate. It only leads to another murder. When Sam decides to look for Kate himself he indeed finds a girl, but is it her? Can her experience have changed her this much? Is this the girl he loves, or a changeling?
