Word: kumari
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...KUMARI (287 pp.)-William Buchan -Morrow...
...where romance leaves off, intrigue begins. Greenwood, for whom Armin has gone to work, builds himself a kind of Shangri-La up on a hill, and turns it into a finishing school for a lovely sun-kissed Hindu teen-ager named Kumari. Race-conscious troublemakers start spreading ugly rumors. What happens to Greenwood and who gets Kumari makes for a skin-prickling ending that will either have readers biting their nails or sharpening them on the throat of any kill-joy who gives it away...