The daring murder was committed right on the theater stage, during the performance. Assistant District Attorney Basil Willing, the protagonist of Ellen McCloy's novel Murder by Clue, is tasked with solving a complex criminal puzzle. Donald Westlake's (361) centers on the fate of a young man who watches his father brutally murdered. But, having entered into a battle with gangsters, having become embittered, he himself becomes like those on whom he takes revenge... The young daughter of a millionaire, addicted to drugs, runs away from home and joins a criminal gang. The search for the fugitive is the basis of the plot of the detective story by John D. MacDonald "I Will Dress Her in Indigo"