Helen Reilly: 5 books

Name Your Poison by Helen Reilly, an Inspector McKee MysteryAs McKee follows the trail of a very ambitious poisoner, he finds the next victim on her way from a Connecticut mansion...stuffed in a trunk. "Svelte story...The gentle Scot, McKee, gets at the truth after many consequences. [Reilly's]...

"Nell Shevlin's womanly intuition works overtime after she arrives at her old homestead to rest and ponder a proposal of marriage. ...Miss Reilly again reveals her artistry by producing a tale in which terror and menace are well sustained and provide a congruous background for McKee to wind...

Tell Her It's Murder, an Inspector McKee mysteryRecollection began to come back. It wasn't a lumpy mattress he was lying on, it was a dead man—a man called Midnight Mike. ...His pain-filled mind curled in terror. It threw him two years back in time—before he was sent to jail—to...

The Dead Can Tell, an Inspector McKee mystery"The letters forming the name ‘Sara Hazard' and the word ‘murdered' were written large caps."The death of Sara Hazard, a Manhattan socialite, was first deemed an accidental drowning. This patch-work letter claimed otherwise...

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.