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Helen Reilly


USA flag (1891 - 1962)
Mother of Ursula Curtiss and Mary McMullen

aka Kieran Abbey

Helen Reilly was an American novelist. She was born Helen Kieran and grew up in New York City in a literary family. Her brother, James Kieran, also wrote a mystery, and two of her daughters, Ursula Curtiss and Mary McMullen, are mystery writers.

Reilly's early books were police procedurals based on her research into the New York Homicide squad. Her most popular character is Inspector Christopher McKee. Reilly also used the pseudonym Kieran Abbey.
 

Genres: Mystery
 
Series
Inspector McKee
   1. Murder in the Mews (1931)
   2. McKee of Centre Street (1933)
   3. The Line Up (1934)
   4. Dead Man Control (1936)
   5. Mister Smith's Hat (1936)
   6. All Concerned Notified (1939)
   7. Death Demands an Audience (1940)
   8. Murder in Shinbone Alley (1940)
   9. Mourned On Sunday (1941)
   10. Three Women in Black (1941)
   11. Name Your Poison (1942)
   12. The Dead Can Tell (1943)
   13. The Opening Door (1944)
   14. Murder on Angler's Island (1945)
   15. The Silver Leopard (1946)
   16. The Farm-House (1947)
   17. Staircase Four (1950)
   18. Murder at Arroways (1952)
   19. The Double Man (1953)
   20. The Velvet Hand (1953)
   21. Lament for the Bride (1954)
   22. Tell Her It's Murder (1954)
   23. The Canvas Dagger (1956)
   24. Ding Dong Bell (1958)
   25. Not Me, Inspector (1959)
   26. Follow me (1960)
   27. Certain Sleep (1962)
   28. The Day She Died (1962)
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Novels
   The Thirty-first Bullfinch (1930)
   Man with the Painted Head (1931)
   The Doll's Trunk Murder (1932)
   File on Rufus Ray (1937)
   Run with the Hare (1941) (as by Kieran Abbey)
   And Let the Coffin Pass (1942) (as by Kieran Abbey)
   Beyond the Dark (1944) (as by Kieran Abbey)
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