Author: Helen Eustis
Publisher: Dolphin Mystery C318
Year: 1962 Print: 1 Cover Price: $.95
Condition: Book Grades.  Very Good. Light wear
Genre: Fiction/Mystery
Pages: 240
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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.