Trolley Folly

Trolley Folly by Henry Wallace Phillips is an intensely smart and rigorous novel about a young man in search of a missing trolley. Excerpt: "How so large and eminently practical a thing as a trolley car-a thing so blatantly modern and, withal, so hard and heavy-could vanish from the face of the earth, and leave neither track nor rack behind, was a problem that caused silver threads to appear amid the gold and bald spots of the officers of the Suburban Trolley Company. With it went the motorman and conductor; gone; vanished; vamoosed; dissipated into thin air. The thing was, and then it was not. That is all they ever knew about it. The facts are these."