The Horizontal Man, Helen Eustis
The Horizontal Man, Helen Eustis
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The Horizontal Man
A Library of America Audiobook Classic

Author: Helen Eustis

Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat

Unabridged: 8 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/01/2015

Synopsis

Helen Eustis’s 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.

About The Author

Helen Eustis (1916–2015) was the author of two novels: The Horizontal Man (1946), which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, and The Fool Killer (1954), which was adapted into a 1965 movie of the same name. She later translated works by French authors including Georges Simenon and Christiane Rochefort.Winner of eight Audies, Barbara Rosenblat (Orange is the New Black) is one of the most respected and popular narrators of audiobooks in the country.

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Goodreads review by robin

The Library of America has released a two-volume set "Women Crime Writers" (2015) consisting of eight crime novels written by women in the 1940s and 1950s. It is absorbing to work through this collection which is edited by Sarah Weinman, a scholar of women's crime fiction. Helen Eustis' novel, "The......more

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