New York: Simon & Schuster, 1964. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, set in a town that looks like many others - while called Mesa City it is probably based on Pueblo Colorado where the author worked in a mental health institution in the 1950s. In this, the patients of the institution become unpaid labor for many of the townspeople - but the discovery of the charred body of a pregnant teenager reveals the rottenness in the town. 246 pp.