Cover damage - front cover almost completely off Cloth cover fading and stained Readers copy Grosset & Dunlap, 1935, 326 pages Green Light starts with the stock market crash in 1929, signalling the beginning of the Great Depression. The protagonist, a doctor named Newell Paige, is preparing for surgery with his friend and mentor, Dr. Endicott. The latter, shaken by his financial loss, makes an error in the surgery, resulting in the death of the patient, one Mrs. Dexter, with whom Dr. Paige had grown close over the preceding weeks. Dr. Paige, hoping to save Dr. Endicott’s reputation, takes the blame and runs off under an assumed name. There are two major plotlines and a few subplots. The other major plotline deals with Mrs. Dexter’s daughter, Phyllis, who falls for Dr. Paige, meeting him under his assumed name. But both major plots and almost all the subplots are tied together by Dean Harcourt of Trinity Cathedral, whose philosophy and advice spur on the novel’s other characters.