Lover's Alibi

by Margaret Widdemer

When Anne Rivington put that ad in the paper it was partly as a stunt, partly because she needed money, and partly out of irritation with an irrepressible young man named Tony France. He was a very attractive young man, the one time she had met him. So attractive that she missed an appointment with her fiance at Tiffany's where they were to select a ring. The telephone started ringing as soon as the office opened. The first client was a playboy - and the first fee was $50.00. The second client was a hard-faced woman who wanted Anne to convince another woman to divorce her husband so that she could marry him. Anne didn't like her and didn't like the prospective job. But she did want the business and turned to look out the window while she made up her mind. Down on the street was the woman's taxi, and standing beside the taxi was her escort - Tony France. Anne's jest became a serious her business became a success. And before she realized what was happening, Anne needed an alibi as badly as any of her clients. To get out of the jam she was in, she had to break her heart in pieces, and then put it together again

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1944

About the author

Margaret Widdemer (1884-1978) was an American author who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (known then as the Columbia University Prize) in 1919 for her collection The Old Road to Paradise (1918). She shared the prize with Carl Sandburg, who won for his collection Corn Huskers (1916). Margaret Widdemer was born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. She grew up in Asbury Park, New Jersey. She graduated from the Drexel Institute Library School in 1909. She came to public attention with her poem The Factories (1917), which treated the subject of child labor. In 1919 she married Robert Haven Schauffler (1879-1964), a widower five years her senior. Schauffler was an author and cellist who published widely on poetry, travel, culture, and music. Widdemer's memoir Golden Friends I Had (1964) recounts her friendships with eminent authors such as Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T. S. Eliot, Thornton Wilder, and Edna St. Vincent Millay.