Author:Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins

Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins
(1876–1929)

Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins

Works

Fiction

• The Smoke Eaters: A Story of Love and Youth: The Story of a Fire Crew (1905) hathitrust; IA
• Don-A-Dreams (1906)
• A Grand Army Man (1908) ^[1] illus Martin Justice IA
• Old Clinkers, a story of the New York Fire Department (1909) (transcription project)
• His Mother (1909) (novelette; also in Silent Sam and Other Stories, 1914 IA (microfilm)
• The Beast (1910) ( By Judge Ben B. Lindsey as related to H.J.O'H) autobiographical hathitrust; IA
• Julie Cane: a novel (1924) (first serialized in Harper's Magazine, 1924)
• Clara Barron (1926)

Short Stories and Collections

• Silent Sam and Other Stories of Our Day (1914)
  • Silent Sam
  • His Mother (also in The American Magazine (1909); and as a booklet in 1919)
  • In the Matter of Art (also in Collier's, Mar 20, 1909)
  • Tammany's Tithes (also in McClures magazine, Oct 1906)
  • The Clowns
  • The Devil's Doings (also as "The Doings of the Devil" in McClure's Magazine, Jun 1908)
  • The Hired Man (also in Collier's, Feb 15, 1908)
  • The Honeymoon Flat
  • The Old Woman's Story
  • The Hot-air Harps
  • The Reporter (also in Collier's, Oct 30, 1909)
  • The Mother-in-law
  • In the Musée (also in Collier's, Nov 28, 1908)
  • The Exiles (McClure's magazine, Mar 1906)
  • During the War (also as "In War Time" in McClure's magazine, Feb 13, 1909)
  • In Lovers' Meeting
  • The Two Mickeys
  • Larkin

• The Adventures of Detective Barney (1915) Illustrated by Henry Raleigh
  • The Blackmailers (also as "Detective Barney" in Colliers, Nov 1914; and in Crime in a Cold-Climate, 1994)
  • The Case of Padages Palmer (also in Collier's, Nov 30, 1912)
  • Though Mountains Meet Not (also in Collier's, Dec 7, 1912)
  • The Kidnappers (also as "The Dummy" in Collier's, Dec 21, 1912)
  • The Anonymous Letters (also in Collier's, Jan 4, 1913)
  • Barney and King Lear (also in Collier's, Sep 20, 1913)
  • Barney Has a Hunch (also in Collier's, Sep 5, 1914)

• From the Life; Imaginary portraits of some distinguished Americans (1919)
  • Owen Carey (also in Century Magazine, Jan 1918)
  • Jane Shore (also in Century Magazine, July 1917)
  • Thomas Wales Warren
  • Benjamin McNeil Murdock
  • Conrad Norman
  • W. T.
  • Hon. Benjamin P. Divins
  • Sir Watson Tyler
  • District-Attorney Wickson
• Detective Duff Unravels It (1929, posthumous collection)

Magazine stories

• Stories included in Silent Sam and Other Stories
  • "The Doings of the Devil" (McClure's Magazine, Jun 1908; as "The Devil's Doings" in Silent Sam and Other Stories)
  • "The Exiles" (McClure's magazine, Mar 1906)
  • "The Hired Man" (Collier's, Feb 15, 1908)
  • "In the Musée" (Collier's, Nov 28, 1908)
  • "In War Time" (Collier's, Feb 13, 1909; as "During the War" in Silent Sam and Other Stories)
  • "In the Matter of Art" (Collier's, Mar 20, 1909)
  • "The Reporter" (Collier's, Oct 30, 1909)
  • "His Mother" (ss) The American Magazine, Aug 1909
• Captain Kieghley ("Old Clinkers") stories^[2]
  • "Captain Keighley's Men" (ss) The Century Magazine, Jan 1905
  • "A Question of Command" (ss) The Century Magazine, May 1906
  • "An Appeal to the Past," (ss) The Century Oct 1906

• "The Bystander" (ss) Munsey's magazine, vol XL, 1908
• "A Change of Profession" (ss) McClures, Nov 1902
• "His Mother" (ss) The American Magazine, Aug 1909
• "Jane Shore" (ss) The Century Magazine July 1917 (also in From the Life, 1919))
• "Captain Meaghan’s Retirement," (ss) Scribner’s Mar 1903
• "New York (ss) Collier's, Jan 16, 1909
• "The Rag Doll" (ss) Everybody's magazine, March 1907
• "Tammany's Tithes" (ss) McClure's magazine, Oct 1906

Plays

• The Argyle Case; a drama in four acts (1912? 1927?), with Harriet Ford; written in co-operation with Detective William J. Burns ^[3]
• The Dummy (1914), with Harriet Ford [Detective Barney] ^[4]
• "When a Feller Needs a Friend"; a play in three acts (1920), with Harriet Ford, IA

Non-fiction

• Under the Prophet in Utah: The National Menace of a Political Priestcraft (with Frank J. Cannon, 1911) PG
• The German Whisper (1918) hathitrust
• The Secret Springs (1920) IA psychoanalysis

Magazine articles:

• "Detective William J. Burns' Great Cases" (selected articles of the series, in Mcclure's Magazine, May-Oct 1911) IA
  • The Dynamiters (McClure's Magazine Aug 1911)
  • A Promoter of Counterfeits (McClure's Magazine Sep 1911)
  • The Insurance Agent (McClure's Magazine Oct 1911)
• "Lucia Ancilotti: from the field notes of a settlement worker" (Collier's, Dec 28, 1912) IA
• "Scollard and the American Stage" (book review, The Century Magazine, Nov 1915)
• "Caste in Criticism" (The Century Magazine, Mar 1916)
• "Freedom of Speech" (The Century Magazine, Dec 1917)

Works about O'Higgins

• "O'Higgins, Harvey J.," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)

Notes

1. Based on the play by David Belasco, Marion Short and Pauline Phelps
2. Most, or all, of these stories were reworked (quite heavily) to form separate chapters of the novel Old Clinkers (1909)
3. A novel based on this play was written in 1913 by Arthur Hornblow
4. Adapted into a Broadway play that ran from April to October 1914; was also filmed twice, as a silent in 1917 and a talkie in 1929.