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discovered that we didn't own it. Somebody went right ahead and spent three weeks making it and suddenly discovered we hadn't bought it.” God knows what we could have held them up for if we had known, but they didn't tell us they had been in production three weeks. That was how Hamilton got $50,000 for his story.

I've never myself heard of him. Is he still alive?

Who?

Patrick Hamilton.

He's disappeared. He wrote another book called The House of Mirrors, which didn't sell very well. But Hangover Square is a fine book--one of the best of its kind.

He is just not a familiar name to me.

Now that you mention it. I'll see if I can find out what happened to him.

I suggested before we started that you might just want to mention the Bedside Book of Famous American Stories that was published in 1936.

Yes, well now, this was an anthology of about fifty