The Pleasant Assassin and Other Cases of Dr. Basil Willing Style:Trade Softcover Christie First US Edition -

Christie First US Edition - 1941 - Dodd

Harry Keating

including eight previously uncollected tales

A locked room mystery is a crime puzzle in which a murder or other impossible event appears to happen in a sealed space with no obvious method of entry or escape

The Pleasant Assassin and Other Cases of Dr. Basil Willing Style:Trade Softcover Christie First US Edition -Dr. Basil Willing "Remarkable, Highly Imaginative, Fiercely Independent." With these words, B. A. Pike in Detective Fiction: The Collectors Guide described the extraordinary novels and short stories of Helen McCloy (1904 1993). Beginning with Dance of Death (1938), her first novel about psychiatrist detective Dr. Basil Willing, McCloy experimented with daringly imaginative concepts within the framework of the formal, fairplay detective story. Her