Two-thirds of a ghost

Description:

Best-selling author falls off the wagon, giving murderer opportunity to drop cyanide into his scotch. Satirical look at N.Y. publishing houses, circa 1955. Plenty of cocktails, dinner parties and cigarettes. (More fun than the mystery.)

subjects: Basil Willing (Fictitious character),  Fiction,  Psychiatrists

People: Authors,  publishers,  literary agents,  psychiatrists,  book reviewers

Places: Manhattan,  Connecticutt

Times: 1950s