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World War One themed novel of "the educated civilian who dashed to the Front without pausing to ask whether he was too good for cannon-fodder - and returned to live among those who had grown fat through the asking".

Carol observes several foreigners in town and that at least one of them seems to be trying to communicate with Veronica. Meanwhile, Carol learns that Veronica has inherited the cave on the Forbidden Trail from her father, who is missing and presumed dead. Veronica's father had said that the cave held the secret to a great scientific discovery. When Carol receives a warning message not to interfere in Veronica's affairs, she knows that something sinister is afoot. Carol does not understand what is going on, but she knows that the answer to the riddle lies in the cave on the Forbidden Trail.

When Lew Archer is hired to get the goods on the suspiciously suave Frenchman who's run off with his client's girlfriend, it looks like a simple case of alienated affections. Things look different when the mysterious foreigner turns out to be connected to a seven-year-old suicide and a mountain of gambling debts.

A Universal History of Iniquity. Jorge Luis Borges. Translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1972. First edition in English. Original dust jacket. In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals his delight in re-creating (or making up) colorful stories from the Orient, the Islamic world, and the Wild West, as well as his horrified fascination with knife fights, political and personal betrayal, and bloodthirsty revenge. Sparkling with the sheer exuberant pleasure of story-telling, this wonderful collection marked the emergence of an utterly distinctive literary voice.

Novel of espionage and intrigue in which the heroine's father is murdered by Nazis forcing her to seek safety in Paris where "she mingles with spies, demimondaines and the riff-raff of the Parisian underworld..."

Laura Belding and her friends, Clara "Bobby" Hargrew, and Josephine "Jess" Morse eagerly anticipate the formation of a girls' athletic association at Central High School. As the girls await the start of an organizational meeting, Bobby Hargrew fools around with a lit punk-stick in the principal's office as a practical joke. Bobby is caught by Miss Carrington and is reprimanded. A few minutes later, a fire breaks out in the office!

"Dorothy, a failed mother and neglected, wife, secretly takes in Larry, an anthropoid amphibian who has escaped from the institute for Oceanographic Research and is being sought for the deaths of two of his keepers … A sensitive portrait of alienation and disaffection with darkly fantastic overtones."

Collects twelve stories including "Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer," a moral fantasy about personified death, "O'Halloran's Luck," a leprechaun story, and "Doc Mellhorn and the Pearly Gates," an ironic posthumous fantasy. "Good stories."