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is really a dreadful incapacity, We're not possessed of all our faculties when we're young, It seems unfair that when we have strength, courage, imaginationall those powers we lose year by yearthat we should lack understanding, " WHISPER HIS SIN When Ferris Sullivan first meets Paul Lasher at Jackson University, he hates him, A loner, on the odd side, Sullivan needs his privacy, But Lasher, the senior in charge of the dorm, assigns him a room with roommates, and keeps the private room for himself.
Still, Lasher takes a liking to Sullivan, and a gradual if begrudging friendship develops, During a break, they go to New York together, where Lasher introduces Sullivan to a few of his flamboyant friends, Lasher has never considered himself gayafter all, he has a girlfriend, doesn't he But that weekend he falls in love with young Sullivan.
They begin to make plans together, If only Sullivan's mother hadn't found out, Horrified, she threatens to expose them, What they need is an escape plan, Leave it to Lasher to come up with the perfect solution, Whisper His Sin is a fictionalized version of a real early's New York crime, the FredanWepman Champagne Murders, THE EVIL FRIENDSHIP Mary Drew Edlin never had any friends until her family moves to Weerdale and enrolls her in an expensive boarding school, Chillam.
There she meets the beautiful and mysterious darkhaired Martha Kent, Together they create an eccentric and erotic fantasy life, stealing into the forbidden forest and creating solemn ceremonies, writing stories together, and becoming lovers in various disguises.
Although Rush, one of Chillams star boarders, wants Martha for her own special friend, no one can break the pair up, What these two devoted girls do not count on is Mrs, Edlin, the fretful mother of Mary Drew, Based on the ParkerHulme case in New Zealand, The Evil Friendship describes what drastic step the girls take to keep

from being separated.
Peter Jackson filmed this story inas Heavenly Creatures, Two short novels of crime from the pulp fiction era by the pseudonymous Vin Packer Packer under another pseudonym is apparently a famous author of young adult fiction.
Both novels written in the's deal with fictionalized versions of sensational true crime stories of that era and are less mysteries per se then explorations of the outside forces that can drive people to crime.
Whisper His Sin is a fictionalized version of the FradenWepman Champagne Cocktail murders which I had never heard of but was apparently well known in the early's.
Two students at an all male college meet and fall in love but legal, societal and familiar pressures so weigh upon them that they head down the road to murder and madness.
Given that the novel was written in, Whisper His Sin is a surprisingly nonlurid, sympathetic account of gay life in the era and how societal pressure and repression can warp and delude even the best and the brightest.
The Evil Friendship is a fictionalized account of the the ParkerHulme murder case made famous by Peter Jackson in his brilliant film Heavenly Creatures.
If you've seen the movie then the plot of teen school girls living in their own fantasy world and driven to murder by their repressed longing for each other will seem very familiar.
Again it is sensitively presented and is a compelling read written nearlyyears before Jackson's movie, Packer at her best writes in a manner that is reminiscent of Patricia Highsmith, There does tend to be more than a little psychobabble in both books and no really well adjusted LGBT characters to be found but given the era in which it was written and the theme that Packer has chosen "societal repression leads to criminal behavior" that is not a surprise.
this book is interesting for two reasons: vin packer is one of m, e. kerr's psuedonyms. and it contains a version of the true story that the movie "heavenly creatures" was based on, fun fun fun sitelink Marijane Meaker born May,is an American novelist and short story writer in several genres using different pen names.
Fromtoshe wrote twenty mystery and crime novels as sitelink Vin Packer, including Spring Fire which is credited with launching the genre of lesbian pulp fiction although few of Packers books address homosexuality or feature gay characters.
Using her own observations of lesbians in thes ands, she wrote a series of nonfiction books as sitelink Ann Aldrich fromto.
Inshe switched genres and pen names once to begin writing for young adults, and became quite successful as sitelink M, E. Kerr, producing overnovels and winning multiple awards, including the American Library Associations lifetime awa sitelink Marijane Meaker born May,is an American novelist and short story writer in several genres using different pen names.
Fromtoshe wrote twenty mystery and crime novels as sitelink Vin Packer, including Spring Fire which is credited with launching the genre of lesbian pulp fiction although few of Packer's books address homosexuality or feature gay characters.
Using her own observations of lesbians in thes ands, she wrote a series of nonfiction books as sitelink Ann Aldrich fromto.
Inshe switched genres and pen names once to begin writing for young adults, and became quite successful as sitelink M, E. Kerr, producing overnovels and winning multiple awards, including the American Library Association's lifetime award for young adult literature Edwards Award, She was described by The New York Times Book as "one of the grand masters of young adult fiction, " As Mary James, she has written four books for younger children, Regardless of genre or pen name, Meaker's books have in common complex characters that have difficult relationships and complicated problems, who rail against conformity.
Meaker said of this approach, "I was a bookworm and a poetry lover, When I think of myself and what I would have liked to have found in books those many years ago, I remember being depressed by all the neatly tied up, happy ending stories, the abundance of winners, the themes of winning, solving, finding when around me it didn't seem that easy.
So I write with a different feeling when I write for young adults, I guess I write for myself at that age, " sitelink.