Books: Wolf! Wolf!

"New York is thrilled. Boston is breathless. Chicago is lusty. Atlanta is seething. Dallas is intense. San Francisco is carried away. Philadelphia is exhilarated. St. Louis is hypnotised."

And what had caused all this commotion? Just one bad novel, Wake of the Red Witch. And had it really made a stir? Of course not; that was just the way publishers cried their shoddier wares these days.

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