{"product_id":"the-horizontal-man-von-helen-eustis","title":"The Horizontal Man","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA philandering professor on the faculty of an Ivy League school is found murdered, setting off ripple effects of anxiety, suspicion, and panic in this Edgar Award-winning classic from 1946.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Horizontal Man\u003c\/i\u003e was Helen Eustis's only crime novel, and she won an Edgar Award for it, combining a wildly disparate set of elements into an enduringly fascinating work. In its way it is a classical whodunit that stands comparison with old-school practitioners such as Agatha Christie or Dorothy Sayers. This mystery transpires in the rarefied precincts of the English department of a venerable New England college, one very much of the restless postwar moment, echoing with references to Freud and Kafka. Eustis finds comedy high and low in a cavalcade of characters bursting at the seams with repressed sexual longings and simmering malice. Beyond the satire, she stirs up--with a narrative whose multiple viewpoints give the book a striking modernistic edge--a troubling sense of the mental chaos lurking just beneath the civilized surfaces of her academic setting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9781598536317\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9781598536317","offer_id":58219142086981,"sku":"9781598536317","price":14.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/73f2eb5f-e9ff-49f0-b121-a10ceee980f0.jpg?v=1780979286","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/the-horizontal-man-von-helen-eustis","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}