1920. Vance, American screenwriter, short story writer and novelist, begins The Dark Mirror: The way of the thing was ever the same: it befell without warning; or rather, the girl had never learned to take heed of signs which seemed plain enough in retrospect, when she sat alone and puzzled her pretty head with the dark riddle of this shadow life which set her so widely apart from every girl she knew and, indeed, from all the rest of humankind. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.