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by Helen McCloy

Basil Willing (Fictitious character)FictionPsychiatristsLarge type booksFiction, mystery & detective, general
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From Goodreads: "Boston landlady Harriet Sutton discovers a note about a conspiracy to murder someone--and the note must have come from one of her tenants. When one of her tenants is murdered, she becomes worried when the police investigate her son, a Vietnam veteran, considering him a victim of combat fatigue who would be capable of anything. She asks forensic psychiatrist, Dr. Basil Willing, to investigate."

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Basil Willing (Fictitious character)FictionPsychiatristsLarge type booksFiction, mystery & detective, generalFiction, psychological

Setting

BostonMassachusettsLate 1970s

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

6

Language

English

Publisher

Orion Publishing Group, Limited

ISBN

9781471912573

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