Word: walz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Times Reporter Jay Walz and wife Audrey (a successful writer of whodunits who signs herself Francis Bonnamy) thumbed their way through several dusty archives full of old diaries, memoirs and letters to piece together their fictional account of one of the young republic's juiciest scandals. The real story, the Walzes conclude, was that a baby was born to Nancy that night, all right, but born dead, and that Richard disposed of it to save the family honor. In court, sullen Mrs. Randolph screened the deed with lies, waited till she got the erring lovers back home before...
...BIZARRE SISTERS (371 pp.)-Jay and Audrey Walz- Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
...Bizarre Sisters offers up popular fiction's oldest standby: the lowly Cinderella who suffers endlessly at the hands of cruel relatives until in the last pages her pumpkin changes to a coach and the prince proposes. The Authors Walz play it for plot, and their plot ripples its muscles admirably. Yet to be convinced that the Randolphs really lived, readers will need more than a note that "except for one supernumerary, no character in this book is imaginary." All blacks and whites, Sisters moves along like a lively shadow play in which no grey shadings ever intrude to slow...