Dr. Basil Willing Books in Order

A young New York debutante is found dead in a snowbank, wearing someone else's clothes and killed by heatstroke in winter. Dr. Basil Willing and Inspector Foyle face a brilliant first puzzle built on contradiction.

Assistant Chief Inspector Foyle finds what looks like a joke set of murder instructions on a university campus, then a scientist dies. As the case darkens, Dr. Basil Willing uncovers wartime secrets, suspicion, and a killer with room to hide.

What should have been a quiet holiday becomes murder when a Long Island hostess serves cocktails laced with truth serum. By morning she is dead, and Dr. Basil Willing has to sort confession, performance, and outright lies.

A man is killed onstage in full view of audience and cast, yet no one can say exactly how it was done. Dr. Basil Willing tackles a dazzling theatrical puzzle with clues as small as a canary and a housefly.

A cruel warning on the telephone begins a run of eerie disturbances around Archie and his nightclub performer fiancee, Frieda. When a murder follows, Dr. Basil Willing must ask whether fear and guilt have hidden the killer in plain sight.

In wartime Santa Teresa, American expat Philip Stark takes over for a dead local correspondent and quickly doubts the death was accidental. A rival reporter, a wary policeman, and the dead man's mistress all have reasons to lie.

On a secret mission in the Scottish Highlands at the end of World War II, Lieutenant Peter Dunbar gets caught up with a troubled boy, a young cousin, and an escaped prisoner. A dying man's message turns the whole landscape into a trap.

At an exclusive girls' school in upstate New York, strange incidents and mounting fear seem to circle one vulnerable teacher. Gisela turns to Dr. Basil Willing, who must decide whether the menace is supernatural or chillingly human.

When a stranger uses Basil Willing's name to hail a cab, the real Basil follows out of curiosity. He lands at a psychiatrist's dinner party for patients and finds a gathering built on secrets, unease, and a very ugly motive.

A diplomat's fatal fall is dismissed as an accident until his widow finds a locked drawer and an empty file marked with a woman's name. The search for what is missing leads Dr. Basil Willing into secrecy and danger.

At a Connecticut party for bestselling author Amos Cottle, someone slips cyanide into his drink. Dr. Basil Willing follows the clues through book reviews, correspondence, and literary gossip to uncover who the dead writer really was.

A séance prank in an old house goes wrong when the eerie knocking starts without the girl who was supposed to make it. Snowbound and cut off, Dr. Basil Willing faces a chilling case of fear, folklore, and murder.

Boston landlady Harriet Sutton finds a note about a murder plot that must have come from one of her tenants. When a tenant dies and her troubled son is suspected, Dr. Basil Willing is asked to dig into the lodging house's secrets.

This collection gathers Dr. Basil Willing's shorter cases, from eerie doubles to impossible-seeming puzzles. It shows McCloy at her most inventive, blending psychological detection with strange events that still point back to human motives.