New Releases by Helen McCloy

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.

From one of the best-loved authors of the Golden Age of detective fiction, this collection of short stories by Helen McCloy features psychiatrist-sleuth Dr Basil Willing. Beginning with her classic, Through a Glass, Darkly, which she later expanded into a full-length novel, McCloy experimented with daringly imaginative concepts within the framework of the formal, fairplay detective story. From doppelgangers to flying saucers each story demonstrates the author''s masterful combination of style, content and technique to produce some of crime fiction''s finest work.

Boston, dans les années 1970. En apparence, Marian Tansey est une femme comme les autres. Ses joies et ses peines ne sortent pas de l''ordinaire. Mais Marian a perdu la mémoire deux ans auparavant. Et hormis les visions qui parfois l''assaillent, rien ne transparaît de cette vie d''avant qui affleure pourtant tout près, à la lisière de sa conscience. Qu''a-t-elle vraiment fait et vécu ? Est - elle folle lorsqu''elle sent une menace peser sur elle ? Marian sait que quelque chose rôde... Mais aura-t-elle le courage de l''affronter ? Faux-semblants, coups de théâtre et révélations hissent La Somnambule au rang de chef - d''oeuvre de suspense psychologique.

Un chef-d''oeuvre de l''énigme écrit en 1942, ici dans une nouvelle traduction.