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  • Published: 10 August 2021
  • ISBN: 9781464215032
  • Imprint: Poisoned Pen Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $24.99

Jim Hanvey, Detective




One of the earliest private eyes in fiction anchors these classic short stories! Reprinted and included in the definitive Library of Congress Crime Classics series

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.

  • Published: 10 August 2021
  • ISBN: 9781464215032
  • Imprint: Poisoned Pen Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $24.99

About the authors

Leslie S. Klinger

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.