Helen Reilly
1891 – 1962
Helen Reilly (nee Helen Kieran) was born and raised in New York City in a literary family. Her brother, James Kieran, was also a writer, and two of Reilly's daughters, Ursula Curtiss and Mary McMullen, are also writers. Reilly's early books were police procedurals based on her research into the New York Homicide squad. Reilly also used the pseudonym Kieran Abbey.
Books
- Compartment K; Night drop; Double image
- The case of the fan-dancer's horse; The silver leopard; Bedeviled
- Certain sleep
- Tell her it's murder
- The opening door
- Dead man control
- McKee of Centre Street
- Ding dong bell
- Mr. Smith's hat
- All concerned notified
- The canvas dagger
- The silver leopard
- Man with the painted head
- Murder in Shinbone Alley
- Dead for a ducat
- The Opening Door / Follow Me
- The day she died
- Compartment K.
- Murder on Angler's Island
- The dead can tell
- Crimefile number 2 ...
- The thirty-first bullfinch
- Murder in the Mews
- Follow me
- Ding dong bell; The obituary club; Deadly purpose
- Not me, inspector
- Lament for the bride
- Three women in black
- Dead for a ducat
- The line-up ...
- Ding dong bell
- Mr. Smith's hat
- The doll's trunk murder
- Three women in black
- Mourned on Sunday
- Staircase 4
- The double man
- Name your poison
- The doll's trunk murder
- The velvet hand
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