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Contact

Short stories of sophistication and psychological suspense, including an O. Henry Award winner.

In the wake of the First World War, a young woman watches the sky for a pilot who didn’t come home. A wealthy bachelor becomes increasingly obsessed with a beautiful stranger at a Manhattan restaurant. A nervous wife awaits a fateful phone call on a stormy November night.

These stories and five more showcase the literary skill of Frances Noyes Hart, author of The Crooked Lane and The Bellamy Trial, and one of the great literary talents of the early twentieth century.

Frances Noyes Hart

Frances Noyes Hart (1890–1943) was an American writer whose stories were published in Scribner’s, The Saturday Evening Post (where her novel The Bellamy Trial was first serialized), and The Ladies’ Home Journal. The daughter of Frank Brett Noyes, founder of the Associated Press, Hart was educated in American, Italian, and French schools before serving in World War I as a canteen worker for the YMCA and a translator for the Naval Intelligence Bureau. She later wrote six novels, numerous short stories, and a memoir.
 

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