• Novels

• Type: Novel
• Length: 288 pages

Levin combines great talent for pure novel writing -- full-bodied characterization, subtle psychological exploration, vivid evocation of locale -- with strict technical whodunit tricks as dazzling as anything ever brought off by Carr, Rawson, Queen or Christie. Anthony Boucher

Places

• Fall River, Massachusetts HE WAS BORN in Menasset (fictional), on the outskirts of Fall River, Massachusetts, the only child of a father who was an oiler in one of the Fall River textile mills and a mother who sometimes had to take in sewing when the money ran low.
• Iowa, United States of America He finally chose Stoddard University (fictional) in Blue River, Iowa, which was supposed to be something of a country club for the children of the Midwestern Wealthy.
• Rockefeller Center, New York City Then suppose we meet, say, in front of the statue at Rockefeller Center, the one of Atlas holding up the world. (International Building courtyard, 630 Fifth Ave)
• The Museum of Modern Art, New York City SUNDAY AFTERNOON MARION WENT to the Museum of Modern Art.