An original and terrifying secret by noir article writer Fredric Brown

Once upon a time, a girl named Jenny Ames wasmurdered within a lonely house. No one knew where she got come from, or why she haddied, or who wiped out her. Years later, a man shifted in to the same house-anddiscovered that there is nothing even more seductive than an unsolved murder.

The Far Cry is another top FredricBrown job-a most adroit, inventive, and utterly horrifying mystery.