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Series: This is Dr. Basil Willing #6
About the author: Helen McCloy (1904-1994) was an American mystery writer, whose series character Dr. Basil Willing debuted in Dance of Death (1938). Willing believes, that "every criminal leaves psychic fingerprints, and he can't wear gloves to hide them." He appeared in 13 of McCloy's novels and in several of her short stories. McCloy often used the theme of doppelganger, but in the end of the story she showed a psychological or realistic explanation for the seemingly supernatural events. (wikipedia)
Major characters:
- Pete Halloran, correspondent for Occidental News Service
- Philip Stark, correspondent for Occidental News Service
- Vincente Almazam, office boy for Occidental News Service
- Patricia Mitchell ("Mitch"), correspondent for Coordinated Press
- Miguel Urizar, captain of municipal police
- --- Eustis, US Consul
- Peranda de Castellar ("Martin"), director of CAE
- Clarence Emmett, Pan Am Processing Co.
- Dr. Basil Willing, New York psychologist
Locale: Santa Teresa, Costa Rica
Synopsis: Out-of-work news correspondent Philip Stark is in Costa Rica and at the end of his resources. He is about to approach Pete Halloran of Occidental News Service for work, but Halloran is found dead of a broken neck on the stairs outside his office. Stark contacts Occidental and is hired on as Halloran's replacement.; working with office boy Vincente Almazam.
Stark meets glamourous Patricia "Mitch" Mitchell, correspondent for competing Coordinated Press. She tells him Halloran had been working on a big story, and discovering one of his telegrams is missing, suspects his death was murder. Police captain Miguel Urizar insists it was an accident, and does not want to pursue it.
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