Background
McCloy, Helen was born in 1904.
(Harry Vaughan's uncle has just passed away, providing the...)
Harry Vaughan's uncle has just passed away, providing the young man with a colossal fortune. Giving up his job, Harry goes back to his roots - and to Celia, the woman he loves. But Harry Vaughan has lost part of his memory. He feels himself ten years older, suffers from headaches, meets people who know him but whom he doesn't remember. When Celia's husband is killed it becomes clear that someone is following Vaughan's life. But who is this shadow and what do they want? 'A real psychiatric shocker' The Tablet
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(Gisela von Hohenems joins the teaching staff of an exclus...)
Gisela von Hohenems joins the teaching staff of an exclusive girls' school in upstate New York, where she befriends fellow newcomer Faustina Coyle. But a climate of fear surrounds Faustina, and after several strange incidents that defy rational explanation, she is forced to resign. Gisela asks her fiance, detective-psychologist Dr Basil Willing, to investigate in this highly acclaimed horror-mystery with shades of M. R. James.
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( In this collection of eight stories by one of America's...)
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 signature story - 'The Singing Diamonds' - Mathilde Verworn enlists the help of Basil Willing, a psychiatrist-sleuth, to answer the question of whether there is such a thing as collective hallucination. Six people from six different locations testify to seeing diamond-shaped objects in the sky, and four of those six have died in peculiar circumstances in the past twelve days ...
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( Adam Endicott did not want Sam Joel as a husband for hi...)
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?
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(To wake the devil, Lucinda summoned the arch fiend with t...)
To wake the devil, Lucinda summoned the arch fiend with the ancient invocation, and from the secret room where her friend Vanya had agreed to hide came the eerie response. The rapping called up all the terror of the old tales, and the joke was going marvellously. Until Lucinda realised that Vanya had never arrived at the old house ...
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(First edition. A near fine copy in a VG dust jacket. The ...)
First edition. A near fine copy in a VG dust jacket. The book has some shelf wear at the base of the spine. The dust jacket is heavily faded along the spine and at the upper 2" of the panels. Dust soiling to the rear panel. There is a small tear at the upper left corner of the front panel that has resulted in a 4" diagonal crease along the upper edge.
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(A snowstorm forces Dr. Willing and his wife to take shelt...)
A snowstorm forces Dr. Willing and his wife to take shelter at a remote house in New England where they must lodge in a haunted room. (Mystery).
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(SYNOPSIS: The D.A. Takes a Chance (182 pgs, Doug Selby, a...)
SYNOPSIS: The D.A. Takes a Chance (182 pgs, Doug Selby, after returning from service in World War II, regained the D.A. job where he dealt some crippling blows against his old nemesis); She Walks Alone (206 pgs, Murder on a Caribbean Cruise, a political battle over the proposed construction of a power system, and a packet containing $100,000.); Voice Out of Darkness (148 pgs, Monica died in a skating accident. Katy had tried to save her foster sister. 13 years later Katy starts receiving threatening notes.)"
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(Boston landlady Harriet Sutton discovers a note about a c...)
Boston landlady Harriet Sutton discovers a note about a conspiracy to murder someone - a note that must have come from one of her tenants. When a tenant is murdered, she asks psychiatrist-sleuth Dr Basil Willing to investigate. Her son, a Vietnam veteran whom the police consider a victim of combat fatigue who may be capable of anything, is under suspicion. And as the mystery unfolds, Harriet Sutton tries desperately to prove them wrong.
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(When Sara Dacre comes across a large red pendant at a twe...)
When Sara Dacre comes across a large red pendant at a twenty cent jewellery stall she is tempted to buy it - especially when she bumps into her friend Gerry Hone, who persuades her that it will brighten up her old grey taffeta. But soon she finds herself at the centre of some strange events. On leaving the shop she and Gerry witness the scene of an accident - but nobody can agree what happened. And when Gerry takes her to an automat for coffee he goes to the counter to order - and never comes back ...'Explosive' Birmingham Post
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McCloy, Helen was born in 1904.
(When Sara Dacre comes across a large red pendant at a twe...)
(To wake the devil, Lucinda summoned the arch fiend with t...)
(Gisela von Hohenems joins the teaching staff of an exclus...)
( In this collection of eight stories by one of America's...)
(Boston landlady Harriet Sutton discovers a note about a c...)
(Harry Vaughan's uncle has just passed away, providing the...)
( Adam Endicott did not want Sam Joel as a husband for hi...)
(A snowstorm forces Dr. Willing and his wife to take shelt...)
(SYNOPSIS: The D.A. Takes a Chance (182 pgs, Doug Selby, a...)
(Fiction/Mystery)
(First edition. A near fine copy in a VG dust jacket. The ...)