Showing posts with label Helen Nielsen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Helen Nielsen. Show all posts

Thursday, October 23, 2025

Born on this day – Helen Nielsen:


Helen Nielsen


Writer

October 23, 1918 – June 22, 2002

Credits:

Books:

101 Mystery Stories (1986); A Killer in the Street (1967); After Midnight (1966); Anti-Social Register (1965); Borrow the Night / aka Seven Days Before Dying (1956); Coffin Break (1974); Dead on the Level (2012); Deadly Arts (1985); Detour / aka Detour to Death (1953); False Witness (1959); Fifty Best Mysteries (2004); Gold Coast Nocturne / aka Dead On The Level / Murder By Proxy (1951); Hard-boiled (1995); Murder on Trial (1994); Obit Delayed (1952); Shot On Location (1971); Sing Me a Murder (1960); Sing Me a Murder / Woman Missing (1961); Speaking of Greed (2001); Stranger In The Dark (1955); Tales of Terror (1980); The Brink of Murder (1976); The Case of the Gilded Lily / The Crime Is Murder / Riddle of a Lady (1956); The Crime Is Murder (1956); The Darkest Hour (1969); The Fifth Caller (1959); The Kind Man (1951); The Man in My Grave / Burden of Proof / Borrow the Night (1956); The Severed Key (1973); The Woman On the Roof (1954); To Hide a Rogue / Policeman's Dread / Verdict Suspended (1964); Uncollected Crimes (1987); Verdict Suspended (1964); Woman Missing (1961).

Movies and television:

87th Precinct (1961); Alcoa Premiere (1962); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959–1961); Blackout (1954); Checkmate (1961); Der Unfallzeuge (1971); Kraft Mystery Theater (1963); Lux Playhouse (1959); Markham (1960); Perry Mason (1961–1962); Tales of the Unexpected (1982); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1965); The Dick Powell Theatre (1961).

Friday, March 21, 2025

Recommended reading - After Midnight, by Helen Nielsen (1966):


After Midnight

by Helen Nielsen.

ASIN: B0007E0IM4
Published by Morrow.
First published 1966.
First Edition.
Hardcover.

Description:

A beautiful suspect with an intense desire to kill. The murder of Roger Warren seemed like an open-and-shut case.The evening before, Roger and his dazzling wife Wanda had moved from one bar to another, fighting loudly and publicly. The next morning, the dead figure of Roger was slumped in a living room chair … while Wanda lay sleeping in bed, a bloodied knife on the pillow beside her. At the District Attorney’s office, the bereaved beauty could remember nothing . . . except an intense desire to kill.