Look. (Grown-ups skip this paragraph) I'm not about to tell you this book has a tragic ending. I already said in the very first line how it was my favorite in all the world. But there's a lot of bad stuff coming.

Goldman also wrote The Silent Gondoliers under the Morgenstern pseudonym. You don't get many and you can't turn them down. He also continued the fictional details of his own life claiming that his psychiatrist wife had divorced him and his son had grown to have a son of his own.