 She adapted a number of great works, including several by Henry James and Charles Dickens, which she found to be a "very healing" experience.Anderson's second published novel, "The Last Man's Head", published in 1970, centres on the appropriately named detective, Alec Probyn, and his struggle to resolve a murder, of which he suspects his brother-in-law, Robbie Maciver, to be guilty.Probyn's efforts are frustrated by the complex structure of the dominant Maciver family, which seeks to deal with Robbie internally.