1904
Helen McCloy is born in New York City. She will be the first female president of the Mystery Writers of America.
Her psychological thrillers often focus on an innocent relative of the suspected criminal. Her series character, Dr. Basil Willing, is the first American psychiatrist-detective, and the first to use psychiatry in discovering clues.
McCloy was once married to hard-boiled writer Brett Holliday.
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