Лучшие произведения Элен Макклой

"Две трети призрака" - старинная салонная игра, где не ответивший на очередной вопрос участник теряет треть своего права продолжать игру. Не ответивший на три вопроса - выбывает из нее. Он становится призраком. Невинная игра станет последним событием в жизни одного из участников. Выпив цианистый калий, он из призрака воображаемого становится реально выбывшим игроком. Первые шаги расследования приводят к новым загадкам - кем был погибший в жизни? Его личность столь же призрачна, как и неудачная игра.

Варианты названий Инспектор Фойл выходит на сцену
Убийство по подсказке
Подсказка для убийства
Канарейка и нож
Театральный детектив

История в традиции Диксона Карра - сверхъестественной головоломки....

Замок, заброшенная деревня и убийство в Шотландском нагорье.Конец Второй мировой войны. Детский психолог и офицер морской разведки США лейтенант Питер Данбар берет на себя выполнение секретной миссии в Шотландском нагорье. Он оказывается втянутым в проблемы одного мальчика и его молодого двоюродного брата. Почему Джонни Стоктон отказывается объяснять, почему он убегает из своего уютного дома? И как его ответ может быть связан с тайной беглого немецкого заключенного и посланием умирающего?

It's 1943, and down-on-his-luck American expat Philip Stark is on the Caribbean island of Santa Teresa. The prewar destination playground is deserted now except for diplomats and oil refinery workers. When a local correspondent dies, Stark sees a chance to make some money. Having worked for the same company in the past, he is hired to replace the dead man. But Stark doesn't think his predecessor died by accident. As he looks into the mystery, he encounters a rival correspondent, an enigmatic police officer and the mistress of the dead man - all of whom had a stake in seeing him dead.

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 . . .

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.

When Dr Basil Willing rents a small shack for a vacation on Long Island he becomes embroiled with his landlady, Claudia Bethune. Claudia wants to learn the secrets of her relatives and friends, so she steals a truth serum and holds a dinner party for her nearest and dearest. In the early morning hours, as Dr Willing returns to his cottage, he sees what he thinks is a fire and investigates. He finds Claudia near death at the table and hears footsteps fading up the stairs. Someone didn't want Claudia to learn the truth about them, and soon Dr Willing finds himself a suspect in murder.

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. The man hails a taxi to take him to 51st street with the instruction: 'Come back and call for me; I am Dr Basil Willing.' Intrigued, the real Basil Willing hails a second taxi and finds himself at a formal dinner party given by a psychiatrist for his patients, who do not really seem at ease there - and later he discovers the horrifying reason why .

When a prominent New York socialite is murdered by means of an overdose of medication, it takes Dr Basil Willing, a psychiatrist attached to the police department, to solve the case. But mysterious accidents start occurring during his investigation, and Willing must look deeper to uncover the motive and prevent the murderer from striking again . . .

The engagement of Archie, a young doctor, to night club artiste Frieda evokes ghostly phenomena when Archie takes Frieda to visit his mother near Washington. Untraceable phone calls, vandalism - and a murder - all happen before Dr Basil Willing, psychologist-sleuth, takes over and solves the mystery.

A prominent American diplomat falls over a cliff to his death. The death is accepted as an accident, but could it have been suicide - or even murder? His widow finds a locked drawer in his desk and in it a file with a woman's name on it - but the file is empty. Circumstances lead her to an elderly man bearing the same name, but he has a stroke and can neither speak nor write. And then she sees the car headlights coming at her, fast, at night, through an impenetrable mist . .

In the second case featuring psychiatrist-sleuth Basil Willing, he is called to a university campus to help investigate the death of a scientist. It looks like suicide, but with local scandal aplenty, more murders in the mix and a dose of Nazi espionage, all may not be as it appears.