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The Horizontal Man

A Library of America Audiobook Classic

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The Horizontal Man

By: Helen Eustis
Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
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Helen Eustis' The Horizontal Man (1946) won an Edgar Award for best first novel and continues to fascinate as a singular mixture of detection, satire, and psychological portraiture.

A poet on the faculty of an Ivy League school is found murdered, setting off ripple effects of anxiety, suspicion, and panic in the hot house atmosphere of an English department rife with talk of Freud and Kafka.

This classic novel is one of eight works included in The Library of America's two-volume edition Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & '50s, edited by Sarah Weinman.

©1946 Helen Eustis (P)2015 Library of America
Crime Fiction Genre Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime Witty
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