The Canvas Dagger

Inspector McKee #26

by Helen Reilly

It wasn’t a case of no clues, but of too many. Eight persons wanted Grant Melville dead. Eight people had been caught up in a tangled web of double-crossing, greed and revenge. Somewhere on this many colored canvas was the one sign that would lead Inspector McKee to the killer, the one suspect who must be becoming even more desperate and frightened — so much so that McKee had to find the murderer before someone else was dead.

Genres: Mystery

160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1956

About the author

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.

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