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Alias Basil Willing

Alias Basil Willing

by Helen McCloy

Basil Willing (Fictitious character)FictionPsychiatristsFiction, mystery & detective, general
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Psychiatrist-sleuth Dr Basil Willing is in a tobacconist's in Manhattan when another customer follows him into the shop, buys cigarettes, and leaves in a hurry. The man hails a taxi to take him to 51st street with the instruction: 'Come back and call for me; I am Dr Basil Willing.' Intrigued, the real Basil Willing hails a second taxi and finds himself at a formal dinner party given by a psychiatrist for his patients, who do not really seem at ease there - and later he discovers the horrifying reason why ...

Themes & subjects

Basil Willing (Fictitious character)FictionPsychiatristsFiction, mystery & detective, general

About the author

Helen McCloy

6 June 1904 – December 1992

Born 6 June 1904, New York, New York; died December 1992 Daughter of William C. and Helen Clarkson McCloy; married David Dresser, 1946 (divorced 1961); children: one daughter Helen McCloy's father was managing editor of the New York Evening Sun; her mother wrote short stories under her maiden name. A Quaker, McCloy studied at the Brooklyn Friends School in New York. At fourteen, she published a literary essay in the Boston Transcript; at fifteen, she published verse in the New York Times. McCloy lived in France for eight years, studying at the Sorbonne in 1923 and 1924. McCloy was Paris correspondent for the Universal News Service (1927-31) and the monthly art magazine International St…

Author

Helen McCloy

Pages

192

Read time

≈ 5h

Editions

4

Language

English

Publisher

Orion Publishing Group, Limited

ISBN

9781471912498

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