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The latest in the Library of Congress Crime Classics series introduces seven stories by Octavus Cohen, first published in 1923 in the Saturday Evening Post. Klinger, the volume's editor, introduces Cohen's detective character Jim Hanvey as warm, big-hearted, kind man, but readers are more likely to remember the physical description of Hanvey as a gargantuan, ungainly man with cheap clothes and a gold toothpick. It's Hanvey's eyes that are eeriest, as described in the sto...Log In or Sign Up to Read More