And here’s the last part of John’s proposal for an unrealized book called Stendek. I’m obliged to be a spoilsport and point out that the story of Rudolph Fentz came not from the NYPD, but from the short story “I’m Scared,” by Jack Finney, published in Collier’s, September 15, 1951.
It’s an intriguing proposal. We can only wonder what the finished book would have been like.
