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Vin Packer wrote many fine novels in the 50’s and 60’s, primarily for Gold Medal Books. They often tackled such topical subjects as sexual orientation and teenage alienation, and sold in the millions. Many of these novels were also superb works of suspense. In reality “Vin Packer” was Marijane Meaker, born in Auburn, New York, a graduate of The University of Missouri. |
She retired the Packer pseudonym in 1966 and began writing a series of award-winning young adult novels as M. E. Kerr. She has also written novels under her own name and she recently published Highsmith, a Romance of the 50’s, a memoir of mystery writer Patricia Highsmith. She now lives in East Hampton, New York. | ||||||||||||
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| Something in the Shadows / Intimate Victims 0-9749438-3-5 $19.95 Sophisticated suspense novels from the early 1960’s—new introduction by the author! Click on books for a larger view |
Damnation of Adam Blessing / Alone at Night 0-9749438-6-x $19.95 “Consistently the most sensitive and illuminating writer of paperback originals.”—Anthony Boucher, New York Times |
Whisper His Sin / The Evil Friendship 1-933586-05-2 $19.95 Two gay & lesbian novels from the 1950's based on true crimes, the latter being a fictionalized account of the New Zealand Parker-Hulme case, filmed by Peter Jackson as Heavenly Creatures. New introduction by the author. |
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