The Moon of Montezuma

This story is set in Mexico, a place where Woolrich spent nearly a decade of his childhood. To an isolated house in the valley comes a beautiful blond woman with a golden haired child with a Rosebud pinned to her coat. She's searching for her American husband who deserted her and to show him the baby he has never seen. Living in the house is an older Mexican woman and her lovely daughter, whose own baby has just died. But what the blonde woman doesn't learn until it's too late is the both babies have the same father. A murder, a burial and a rose bush that grows into a life of its own. Is it a witness to her crime? Woolrich's style in this particular story is vibrant, colorful and Frances Nevins, Woolrich's biographer, called it "poetic horror".