With the United States on the verge of atomic war with the Communists, a handsome, naked man—let’s call him John Smith—walks out of the ocean with a bag full of money and, according to eyewitnesses, a mind to buy the Mona Lisa and a long list of other masterpieces.
Then he began writing titles. I’m afraid I gasped. “Really,” I said. “You can’t actually expect to buy the ‘Mona Lisa’!”

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  1. “The Past Master” by Robert Bloch, in Bluebook, January 1955.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Robert Bloch