Jim Hanvey, detective by Octavus Roy Cohen
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"Jim Hanvey, detective" by Octavus Roy Cohen is a collection of detective stories written in the early 20th century. It follows Jim Hanvey, a hulking, deceptively placid sleuth whose patient observation and quiet traps undo clever schemes by crooks and insiders alike. Expect twisty, character-driven capers that weigh nerve against conscience. The opening of the collection presents Fish Eyes, where chief paying teller Cliff Wallace and his fiancée Phyllis Robinson lift $100,000
from a bank, stash it in a safety-deposit box, and rely on routine and secrecy to dodge suspicion while two formal investigators blame a miscount. The mere presence of the slow-blinking Jim Hanvey rattles Cliff until, after weeks of strain, he returns the cash under a promise of immunity—only to find Hanvey hadn’t been after him at all. The next story, Homespun Silk, introduces suave thief Arthur Sherwood and Hanvey’s reconstruction of a New Orleans jewel heist involving social climber Mrs. Haley; without proof, Hanvey plays a longer game, baiting Sherwood with paste replicas to push him to his vault, then narrowing the search by time-window bank logs. As Sherwood schemes to sell the gems back to Mrs. Haley, Hanvey alerts her banks and begins shadowing her—the point at which the provided text breaks off. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Cohen, Octavus Roy, 1891-1959 |
|---|---|
| LoC No. | 23013656 |
| Title | Jim Hanvey, detective |
| Original Publication | New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1923. |
| Contents | Fish eyes -- Homespun silk -- Common stock -- Helen of Troy, N.Y. -- Caveat emptor -- The knight's gambit -- Pink bait. |
| Credits | Tim Lindell, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Detective and mystery stories, American |
| Subject | Short stories, American |
| Subject | Private investigators -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 78848 |
| Release Date | Jun 12, 2026 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1928 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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