Jaffery

Jaffery Chayne, war correspondent, returns from the Balkans bringing with him a problem In the person of an Albanian widow who has been bequeathed to him by a dying comrade. This splendid and unconventional figure, whose early years had been spent in the neighborhood of the Chicago stockyards, seems for a time to have no legitimate place in the story. For in the beginning It is wholly concerned with one of Jaffery's friends, Adrian Boldero, who dies suddenly while at work on a second...
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Jaffery Chayne, war correspondent, returns from the Balkans bringing with him a problem In the person of an Albanian widow who has been bequeathed to him by a dying comrade. This splendid and unconventional figure, whose early years had been spent in the neighborhood of the Chicago stockyards, seems for a time to have no legitimate place in the story. For in the beginning It is wholly concerned with one of Jaffery's friends, Adrian Boldero, who dies suddenly while at work on a second novel for which publisher and public are clamoring. His death reveals to his friends the fact that the first novel had been the work of another hand and that the second is only so much rubbish. To keep the truth from Doria, Adrian's wife. Jaffery, who loves her, writes a novel himself and publishes it under Adrian's name. It is after this matter is out of the way, and Dorla has discovered the truth, and Jaffery has discovered that he doesn't love her after all, that the magnificent Liosha comes into her own.
--Book Review Digest, Volume 11