The Mysterious Stranger
Publisher: Signet Classics
Published: February 1, 1962
ISBN-13: 9780451518552
First sentence: IN compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler, and inquired after my friend's friend, Leonidas W. Smiley, as requested to do, and I hereunto append the result.