Scott Free: A Crime Novel - Hardcover

Meaker, Marijane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786718676 ISBN 13: 9780786718672

Publisher: Carroll & Graf, 2007

Synopsis

A mystery set in the Hamptons featuring a transgendered detective.

About this title

About the Author:

Marijane Meaker is the author of more than forty books and recipient of many awards. Writing under the pen-name Vin Packer, she wrote the lesbian paperback bestseller Spring Fire. She is also the acclaimed young adult novelist M.E. Kerr.

From Booklist:

Long before Marijane Meeker became the groundbreaking young-adult author M. E. Kerr, she wrote as the groundbreaking paperback novelist Vin Packer, whose first title, Spring Fire (1952), was arguably^B the first lesbian pulp novel. Nearly two-dozen Packer suspense paperbacks followed throughout the 1950s and 1960s before Meeker retired the pseudonym. Now Packer is back with another innovative crime novel, this one starring a male-to-female transgender insurance investigator (and part-time librarian!) named Scotti House. Almost unwittingly, Scotti becomes embroiled in a kidnap plot involving the daughter of a terminally ill tycoon and a fabulous jewel that once belonged to the Duchess of Windsor. Though not the author's best work, the novel is distinguished by its sensitive treatment of the transgender material. And fans will be amused by the Hamptons setting--where the author makes her home--and the many references ranging from the Ashawagh Hall Writers Group to Patricia Highsmith that echo Meeker's real life. Michael Cart
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About this edition

• Publisher: Carroll & Graf
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0786718676
• ISBN 13: 9780786718672
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304