JACK FINNEY conceives such wonderful and convincing plots, in which people carry out daring and completely unheard-of acts of crime, that it is evident the world of the lawless lost a brilliant potential member when Finney decided to become an author. Many of his short stories have appeared over the last decade in practically all of the major national magazines.
So instead of becoming the Professor Moriarty of the twen-tieth century, Mr. Finney lives quietly in Mill Valley, California, with his...