About the book: year / Peru American writer Helen McCloy owns more than 30 works written in the genre of psychological detective. The collection of the famous American writer Helen McCloy (real name Worrell Clarkson; 1904-1975), whose work is popular with connoisseurs and lovers of psychological, intellectual detective stories, includes two novels united by a common character leading the investigation. His name is Basil Willing. He is a specialist in psychology, a psychiatrist, whom nature has also endowed with rare powers of observation and extraordinary powers of deduction..