South of Babylon: And Other Short Stories

As the title implies, this is an anthology, a book of short stories, something less than novel length, but are complete stories in themselves. They range across a time span extending from the start of World War II in 1939, describing planes being ferried across the Atlantic by inexperience women pilots, to a bridge construction failure in Florida. They include a story about the Flying Tigers in early 1940; Florida real Estate in the 1950's and police tracking down a slippery hit and run kil...