Helen Nielsen

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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1951
  • Latest Book:
    September 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Simon Drake

1 - Dead on the Level // Gold Coast Nocturne (1951)
2 - After Midnight (1966)
3 - A Killer in the Street (1967)
4 - Darkest Hour (1969)
5 - The Severed Key (1973)
6 - The Brink of Murder (1976)

Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • Dead on the Level // Gold Coast Nocturne

    Simon Drake - 1

  • After Midnight

    Simon Drake - 2

    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, t...

  • A Killer in the Street

    Simon Drake - 3

    It was a Tuesday night in November, 1962. Rain fell slow and steady in Manhattan, slanting hard on near-deserted sidewalks and streets pocked by the occasional twin circles of approaching headlamps. Taxis spawned out from Times Square like predatory ...

  • Darkest Hour

    Simon Drake - 4

    A super-cool lady - a passionate murder.Simon Drake hadn’t counted on violence when he asked the super-cool Hannah Lee to manage the Marina Beach mansion. With beautiful Hannah residing as den mother and poker companion, Simon soon found himself ho...

  • The Severed Key

    Simon Drake - 5

    Was the crash deliberately contrived, a diabolical piece of sabotage, or was it cruelly fortuitous? Simon Drake -- Miss Nielsen’s very personable and popular lawyer-detective -- happens to be at the airport at the time of the crash, and notices tha...

  • The Brink of Murder

    Simon Drake - 6

    Barney Amling, president of Pacific Guaranty, disappears. So do a million of the company’s dollars. Ostensibly, he has gone to Mexico City for a monetary conference, but he didn’t arrive and wasn’t expected. His wife calls in the lawyer Simon D...

  • Sing Me a Murder

  • The Crime is Murder

    Young Marta Cornish was haunted by a heritage of buried scandal and dark desires. Her father -- a composer of genius -- had died violently and the sinister enigma of his death lingered, poisoning the lives of those who had loved and hated him.Suddenl...

  • Dead on the Level

    As in her sensational first offering, Helen Nielsen has again come up with a fast-paced and remarkably readable mystery. It begins when a gorgeous girl makes an incredible proposal, and ends when a would-be fall guy unearths some low schemes in high ...



  • Obit Delayed

    The melody of death...Down at the edge of Mexican town, where the pavement gives out and the yellow dust drifts ankle deep over the hard packed adobe, a radio is moaning a dreamy beat into the night. It is the kind of music that needs two people, but...

  • Shot on Location

    The filming of an American movie set on location in Greece becomes the stage for a far more sinister production in this unputdownable political suspense. Rich and famous movie directors like Harry Avery don’t ordinarily disappear -- especially when...

  • Stranger in the Dark

    In a neatly handled story with a fresh setting, Helen Nielsen introduces Larry Willis, star salesman for an American farm equipment company, who earned a trip to Copenhagen for a business convention. With four days free before its opening, he wandere...

  • Verdict Suspended

    Intricacy, expertise, substance -- all are here in this latest of Helen Nielsen’s absorbing mysteries.“Homicide, by person or persons unknown,” was the judgment of the coroner’s jury -- but for Jaime Dodson, brother of the murdered woman, the...

  • Detour to Death

    Danny Ross, kid hitch-hiker trapped by circumstantial evidence . . . Now he was a fugitive, alone and friendless . . .His one ally lay on the seat of the stolen car, the gun he’s ripped from the sheriff’s holster when he escaped. The sight of it ...

  • False Witness

    Markham Grant knew he was sane. He knew he had seen a murder. But two days later he fell passionately in love with the woman who had been killed. Who was the man he had seen strangling her? Or was she going to be strangled? Doubt piled on doubt, ...

  • The Woman on the Roof

    THE WOMAN ON THE ROOF Wilma Rathjen lives above the garage with a view of the apartments below. Her brother Curtis has provided this safe haven for her after her breakdown. The last thing Wilma wants to do is go back to the institution. So when she l...

  • Borrow the Night // The Fifth Caller

    BORROW THE NIGHTJudge Ralph Addison has been receiving threatening letters for the past six days, but he hasn’t taken them seriously. Until now. The seventh letter is followed up by a phone call. He is being watched. Perhaps this isn’t just a pra...

  • Sing Me a Murder // False Witness

    SING ME A MURDERTy Leander stages his suicide in the same apartment where young Mary Brownlee was found murdered. It's not that he harbors any desire for self-destruction. He's trying to leave a clue, to draw attention. Ever since his wife-the famous...

  • Turning the Tables

    TURNING THE TABLESHelen Nielsen was a master of the turnabout. Her stories rarely end on a predictable note, rarely going where you think they are going to go. These fifteen stories, originally published from 1957 to 1991 in the pages of Alfred Hitch...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Helen Nielsen has published 19 books.

Helen Nielsen does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Turning the Tables, was published in September 2022.

The first book by Helen Nielsen, Dead on the Level // Gold Coast Nocturne, was published in January 1951.

Yes. Helen Nielsen has 1 series.
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