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Edward Albert in
The Fool Killer (1965) |
Helen Eustis—author of the Edgar-winning
The Horizontal Man (1946) and
The Fool Killer (1954), friend of Carson McCullers, and ex-wife of Smith poet-professor Alfred Young Fisher—turns 95 today in New York City. Eustis is one of two living writers on the
Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone list of essential mysteries (the other is
Dorothy Salisbury Davis). The Best Mysteries of All Time series of
Reader's Digest issued a new edition of
The Horizontal Man this year.
(post updated to reflect correct age from Eustis's son)
2 comments:
So sad that there are only two survivors from that list. Is The Horizontal Man the best first novel in the genre? (I'd say a qualified yes, ranking it in a dead tie w/ Levin's A Kiss Before Dying).
Yes, _The Horizontal Man_ won the Edgar for best first novel. There's a few first novels on the HQ list such as Sayers's _Whose Body?_. The Dorothy B. Hughes novel on the list, _The So-Blue Marble_, was Hughes's first novel, although I think many would say it is not her best work. And Hughes seemed to agree with you re Levin's _A Kiss before Dying_, as she selected it as one of the best mysteries of 1953.
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