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(0)Helen Reilly
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The Dead Can Tell, first published in 1940, is a murder-mystery featuring New York City police inspector Christopher McKee, one of a series of books featuring the inspector. For added realism, author Helen Reilly (1891-1962) based many of her novels on her research of the NYPD Homicide Squad.
"Sara Hazard died when her car slid across the drive into the murky depths of East River. The police crossed it off as an accident until Ins.
McKee of the...
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English
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The Opening Door, first published in 1943 by author Helen Reilly, is a murder-mystery featuring New York City police inspector Christopher McKee, who is called in to solve the puzzling death of a young socialite. From the book cover: "This is the story of a beautiful and haunted young woman. When she was one-year-old, she was worth nine hundred thousand dollars. At twenty-one, she was sole heir to five million. Before she was twenty-two, she had endured...
3) Staircase 4
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English
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Death strikes down a man on the eve of his wedding to a lovely girl. The verdict is suicide, but the girl is certain it is murder-certain because of a closing door. Inspector McKee wonders, too, and soon both he and the girl have their hands full trying to catch up with an ingenious murderer who leaves a corpse-dotted trail.
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Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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A speakeasy performer is murdered in this pioneering mystery from the mother of the police procedural.
When one of New York's favorite dancers is killed in a crowded high-tone speakeasy, everyone present becomes a suspect—and those that may have eluded questioning as well. It's up to Inspector McKee of the NYPD to sift through the witness statements, separate fact from fiction, and put together a picture...Publisher
Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Depending on who you ask, the term “whodunit” was first coined sometime around 1930, but the literary form predates that name by several decades. Still, it was in the years between the two World Wars-the so-called “Golden Age” of mystery fiction-that the style flourished. Short mysteries were published far and wide by a variety of authors, not just those primarily associated with the genre. They appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan,...