No Traveller Returns
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I watched as certain members of both groups were summoned or sent toward the big double doors that led to the kitchen. Moment of truth. Time to say goodnight. I heard angry shouting. Where the hell was the elevator? It arrived. Why was it standing still? I grabbed one of the waitresses – purveyors of champagne – by the arm and pulled her into the elevator. The room filled with the hissing of a hundred snakes. “Not a place you want to be,” I said, as the elevator understood at last that its occupants wanted to go down. I had done one thing, a small thing, in response to my sense of inevitability.
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Identical twins, Bruce and Brendon Laird, take different paths after Bruce ruins his knee playing football and Brendon goes off to the middle east in the Army. Bruce becomes a famous scholar, discovering the Ur-Hamlet, legendary immediate source of Shakespeare’s play. He is also given a look at a cache of letters from the legendary L.S. Marker. However, he comes to grief at small Oliver Otis College, for what that institution considers ‘moral turpitude.’ He alienates the woman who had received the Marker letters and loses a magnificent opportunity. He also loses Bettina Arujo and Robbie Spector along the way, and falls in love with Brendon’s girlfriend, Annie. Brendon, meanwhile, becomes the banker for a powerful New Jersey mob. At the end, Bruce must substitute for Brendon at a mob gathering that everyone knows will turn deadly. Finally, what happens to Annie Devereux, the woman each twin loves?