Jim Hanvey, Detective

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First published in 1923, Jim Hanvey, Detective is a collection of seven stories that originally appeared in The Saturday Evening Post and features private eye Jim Hanvey in classic whodunit style mysteries. Described as the "backwoods Nero Wolfe," the genial Hanvey befriends "good guys" and criminals alike to get the job done.

Bank robberies, jewel heists, and all-purposes cons—none are a match for Octavus Roy Cohen's waddling sleuth.

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Janice Tangen
August 7, 2021
1920s, mysteries, private-investigators, crime-fiction, classic-crime, reprint, edited, short-stories, collection, Library Of Congress***** Originally these well crafted short stories were published in the popular magazine Saturday Evening Post in the 1920s and have been residing in the Library of Congress until recently. This small collection has been given a great editing which explains the current value of any monies included, gives things like *had a watch chain like a hawser* an explanation, and who knew that what we know as a gas pedal today was a hand throttle then? The detective is really something else! To the eye, he is oddly sized and kind of irritating but he can out-Sherlock anyone with dogged patience and acute logic. He looks slow-witted, and especially outwits criminals who underestimate him and overestimate themselves. Classics indeed! Super reads! I requested and received a free temporary ebook copy from Poisoned Pen Press via NetGalley. Thank you!
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About the author

Octavus Roy Cohen (1891-1959) was an early 20th century American author whose character Jim Hanvey was one of the earliest private eyes in fiction.

LESLIE S. KLINGER is the two-time Edgar® winning editor of New Annotated Sherlock Holmes and Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s. He has also edited two anthologies of classic mysteries and, with Laurie R. King, five anthologies of stories inspired by the Sherlock Holmes Canon. Klinger is the series editor of Library of Congress Crime Classics, a partnership of the Library of Congress and Poisoned Pen Press/Sourcebooks. He is a former Chapter President of the SoCal Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America and lives in Malibu, California.

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