Which were strange but true vignettes usually about crime or horrifying accidents That filled up the pages of popular papers and were lavishly illustrated.
The editor offers to buy Frank's twelve-hundredword vignette, “The Lady in the Trunk, ” for twenty-five dollars plus a dozen cc's—contributor's copies.
These vignettes shift from the present-Eva living as a social pariah, a husk of her former self-to the past, and are jumbled with the non-chronology of memory.