And indeed it is his psychological mysteries thatfellow writers said yesterday would be his principal legacy.
Woolrich's novels written between 1940 to 1948 are considered his principal legacy.
Despite his outstanding playing career, Flood's principal legacy developed off the field.
With his success he chose to make access to fine music available to a broader public in New York, as one of his principal legacies.
The city of Beverly Hills, California, is the principal legacy of the two brothers-in-law.
It also cast aside the objective measure of justice and ethics which, he decided, was the principal legacy of religion to civilized life.
But the principal legacy of his prison years was his abandonment of violence as a political tool.
The idea that democracy is a good thing has persisted as the principal legacy of the collapse of Communism.
And yet, the founders' principal legacy to their descendants was not that freedom, but the dust.
And the Administration's principal legacy in health-care policy has been to get out of the way while states and big corporations swiftly remake the system.