Young playwright Laurie Devon staged a brilliant play on the main stage of New York and now believes that she may not write anymore. All his colleagues and friends say the opposite. But he doesn't listen to them. Life for him is extremely clear: you just need to live for your own pleasure and relax! So he thinks until the window of a neighboring house is reflected in the mirror, and in the window is a strange stranger... A sad beauty with a loaded revolver. Vintage thriller about a chase along the winding roads of America 1910 's lays a dashing turn, drawing the reader into an exciting story. The novel “The Girl in the Mirror” came from the pen of the head of the editorial board of Harper’s Bazaar magazine, Elizabeth Garver Jordan, more than a century ago, but in its psychological tricks and unexpected plot twists it is not inferior to the current bestsellers of the genre. And most importantly, in its message it anticipates Somerset Maugham’s “Theater”, saying: “Play is pretense. And pretense is the only reality...” Published in Russian for the first time.