Detective Duff Unravels It
$43.69
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2026
Summary
“It’s a psychological case, and we’ll have to handle it psychologically, see?”
Called “the first serious approach to psychoanalytical detection” by Ellery Queen, this clever book paved the way for a new era of psychology in crime fiction.
Originally published in 1929, DETECTIVE DUFF UNRAVELS IT gathers eight short stories by Harvey O’Higgins featuring the titular detective doing what no literary detective had done previously—namely, using psychology to solve cases. This novel …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781464258015 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1464258015 |
| Author: | Harvey O'Higgins |
| Publisher: | Sourcebooks, Inc |
| Imprint: | Poisoned Pen Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2026 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Series: | Library of Congress Crime Classics |
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Harvey O'Higgins
Harvey Jerrold O’Higgins (November 14, 1876 - February 28, 1929) was a Canadian-born novelist, journalist, and dramatist best known today for his psychologically informed Detective Duff stories. Born in London, Ontario, he studied at the University of Toronto (1893-97) before turning to journalism and fiction, later moving to the United States as his magazine detective tales found an audience. His career spanned social-issue collaborations and Broadway plays (often with Harriet Ford), but his lasting genre footprint is Detective Duff Unravels It (1929), a posthumous collection featuring John Duff, a sleuth who blends informant networks with early psychoanalytic thinking. The book is recognized both in Ellery Queen’s “Queen’s Quorum” and among the Haycraft-Queen Cornerstones for its pioneering use of psychoanalysis in detection.
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