The Doll’s Trunk Murder, by Helen Reilly

Although she penned more than 40 novels and once served as the president of the Mystery Writers of America, Helen Reilly is not familiar to most readers these days. Yet, as Mike Grost recalled in Mystery*File, she is deservedly acclaimed as one of the first crime-fictionists to stress accurate police procedures in her novels. The majority of her books featured Inspector Christopher McKee, a New