Through a Glass, Darkly (1950)

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My review:

While the author creates a remarkable sense of menace directed against an innocent woman, the solution is a let-down (and unresolved), and weak on evidence.  The notion of the ‘fetch’ and death by wishing are well handled, though, and the asides on witchcraft and psychology are good.  The book focuses mainly on the nature of God, and the ending, with the man of science against the forces of superstition, is effective.  McCloy is similar to Carr (the use of the supernatural and the impossible crime), Mitchell (the psychologist-detective and the unresolved supernatural), and Bailey (scientific plots against an innocent victim).

To the Bibliography.

To the Helen McCloy Page.

To the Grandest Game in the World.

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