Headlights On

Sunningdale, England, Wednesday, December 8, 1926, 9 pm. Five days ago the novelist Leonora Vesey, 36, drove out of her house on a Friday night and has not been seen since.

At 7:30 on Saturday morning, a cartercarter A man who drives a horse-drawn cart carrying goods, a common trade before motor lorries. found her car at the edge of a chalk pit at Hollins Corner, headlights burning, with her fur coat, a small suitcase and an expired driving licence inside.

The police are dragging the nearby lake, volunteers are combing the hills, and the papers sell her face on every corner. Leonora's new novel, which had been gathering dust in the bookshops, has sold out since Monday.

Three people spoke to Leonora in the last week. One of them knows where she will sleep tonight.

Sitting room of an English country house in 1926, a lit fireplace and a typewriter on the desk.