London: The Quadriga Press, (1962) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel set in the Midwest by this author, literary critic and professor, who was born in Indiana although he lived most of his life in California. In 1933, in the midst of the Depression, Henry Whitehead comes back to a small town in Northern Indiana determined to kill the man who ruined his father and whom he considered responsible for his father's suicide, but instead he learns that not all is as simple as it seems, as he gradually comes to a greater maturity. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper with the comment 'this moral tale.' 318 pp. Wraparound dust jacket by Gaynor Chapman.