# Alias Basil Willing

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- Book: [Alias Basil Willing](https://www.bookquiver.com/helen-mccloy/alias-basil-willing) ([Alias Basil Willing.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/helen-mccloy/alias-basil-willing.md))
- Authors: [Helen McCloy](https://www.bookquiver.com/helen-mccloy)
- Publisher: the_murder_room
- ISBN: 978-14-7191-250-4
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2014-10-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Psychiatrist-sleuth Dr Basil Willing is in a tobacconist's in Manhattan when another customer follows him into the shop, buys cigarettes, and leaves in a hurry. The man hails a taxi to take him to 51st street with the instruction: 'Come back and call for me; I am Dr Basil Willing.' Intrigued, the real Basil Willing hails a second taxi and finds himself at a formal dinner party given by a psychiatrist for his patients, who do not really seem at ease there - and later he discovers the horrifying reason why ...