THE END OF TRAGEDY
by Rachel Ingalls
Simon & Schuster; 185 pages; $16.95
Rachel Ingalls specializes in refurbishing moth-eaten plots. The four novellas in The End of Tragedy all begin with premises that are numbingly familiar and wind up in ways that seem utterly new and unpredictable. Friends in the Country sends a couple out to a dinner party and deposits them in a sudden fog at what is almost certainly the wrong house, an isolated, spooky Victorian monstrosity; from then on, the mystery evolves into deciding who is crazier, the hosts or the uninvited guests. In the Act is a...
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