[PW] Re: Ordeal by Cheque short story

[Sylvia Milne]

This is not really an answer, but
http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/vintage/articles/earlyyears/
is an article about Vanity Fair from 1914-1936
It gives a list of writers in the early Vanity Fair.
Mr. Crue is not in the list. It may be that he/she was not sufficiently 
important, or it may be a nom de plume.
Possibly, the writer of the article might have some information.

Sylvia Milne

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mary Somers" <MSomers at Harford.edu>
To: <list at project-wombat.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 2:55 PM
Subject: [PW] Ordeal by Cheque short story


> At the request of a faculty member, I have found a copy of the 1932
> short story titled "Ordeal by Cheque".  It's quite an intriguing little
> piece of inventive fiction.  The "story" consists of a series of checkes
> written over a period of about 30 years.  The reader infers the plot
> from looking at who the checks were made out to, and for how much.
> The author is "Wuther Crue"; the story appeared in a 1932 Vanity Fair
> issue; the author renewed the copyright in 1960 and 1988.
> The faculty member woulld like to know something about the author.
> Unfortunately, we can turn up nothing.  There is no authority file in LC
> for Wuther Crue; he (she?) does not appear in World Cat.  We have
> checked our paper author bio indexes.  No joy with either LION or
> Literary Resource Center.  We have googled him, we have tired various
> anagrams for Wuther Crue. We have tried Walter and Grue as alternate
> spellings.
> Searching the archives turns up a request for the same short story
> several years ago, but no author info.
> Here is the link to the story: www-tcall.tamu.edu/research/
> ESL_Classroom/Ch2/OrdealChequeCheques.pdf
> Anyone, anywhere, ever hear of Wuther Crue?
> Thanks--Mary Somers
> Public Services Librarian
> Harford Community College
> Bel Air, MD 21015
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