Jerry by Jean Webster Fiction Action & Adventure

<p><strong>Yesterday this guest had rung the bell and demanded a partner to play lawn tennis -- as if the hotel kept partners laid away in drawers like so many sheets. </strong>The guest Jerymn Hilliard Jr. is unexpectedly at loose ends in tiny Valedolmo. He has seen all the Baedeker sights already . . . Then he learns that in a rose-colored villa surrounded with cypress and with a terrazzo on the lake lives another American -- one with a daughter: a Signorina Constantina: beautiful like the angels in Paradise says Gustavo.</p><p>American novelist Jean Webster best known for Daddy-Long-Legs which became a silent picture for Mary Pickford also wrote popular books for young people including this entertaining story of an American abroad.</p>