Brinig, Myron. The Sun Sets in the West (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, c1935) 360 p.

In the western mining town of Copper City many interesting stories are to be found. One concerns Gertrude Fields, the town librarian.

She was a slender, virginal spinster of forty with flower-like blue eyes and the soft pale complexion of a madonna. She was frail and alone and mysterious. (p. 16).

Miss Fields is attracted to a young man who loves books as much as herself. He in turn is attracted to her but the town is scandalized when he is seen going frequently to her apartment.