BRAIN WAVES AND DEATH by Willard Rich

Despite the trimmed cover I felt fortunate to procure a copy of this mysterious and legendary novel. The book was published in 1940 just a few weeks after its author, William T. Richards, writing under the name "Willard Rich", committed suicide. Standing as the only published work ever written by Richards, he was employed by one Alfred Lee Loomis whose military laboratory, nicknamed "Tuxedo Park" was located 40 miles north of New York City. Loomis established the MIT Rad Lab and was later instrumental in development of The Manhattan Project. Since the novel allegedly parallels Richards' work and experience at the lab, Loomis purportedly had copies of the novel collected for destruction. But just as with the film Nosferatu some years before, not all copies met their censored end. Please note the novel is surprisingly well written and is readily available. For a mysterious book with a tight mystery, I recommend BRAIN WAVES AND DEATH. I really do.