From one of the best-loved authors of the Golden Age of detective fiction, this collection of short stories by Helen McCloy features psychiatrist-sleuth Dr Basi

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.

This is the first book to offer a critical analysis of one variant of the mystery story or novel—the use of a physician as the major detective. There is littl

In this collection of eight stories by one of America's most gifted writers, Helen McCloy takes the reader into a world of mystery and imagination. In the signa

The detective story--the classic whodunit with its time-displacement structure of crime--according to most literary historians, is of relatively recent origin.