European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 23, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8twt\ a on by Jocelyn Mcclurg the Hartford courant my Higgins Clark impeccably. Coiffed and elegantly dressed takes a discreet sip of Black Coffee and dives headlong into the lunch Lime topic of serial killers. In la pcs music loves to dance Simon amp Schust Erthe Best Selling authors new novel a killer with a shoe fetish snares Young w Oman. Through the personal ads. The ads open with the come on a loves music Lovesy  \ Clark said the title and the idea for the Book a just walked through my head a few years ago at the Lylei National crime writers Congress in new York where Fri agent Bob Ressler was lecturing. On a so. Iat killer who operated through the personals. Presto. A Best seller was born. A Clark has had an impressive string , starting with where Are the children in 1975, Lor which she received a $5,000 Advance. It did so Well that Simo schuster gave her $500,000 Lor her next novel a stranger is watching. The Bucks read in got big in 19,s8, when Clark signed a $10.1 minion contract with Simon amp schuster for Lour novels and a collection of Short stories Clark fits the profile of the classic Oyer achiever. This is a woman who graduated Summa cum  from new York s Fordham University when she a. Was in her 50s and already writing est Sellers. She has become known As a writer who plumbs beneath the surface of everyday life to find Ter ror and one who has a taste Lor gift your. While. My pretty one sleeps the first mystery she wrote  $10 million contract and one of the top. Id fiction Best Sellers of 1989, unfurls in new shirk s. Fashion world loves music loves to a dance is also set in the upscale world of Man i nil. Tail and the main character is an insecure Young woman w Hose parents Are two la Numis actors. 1 although ultraviolet novels seem to be in a Ogue , Clark prefers a More bloodless approach. �?o1 done to like to show violence Quot she said. �?o1 grew up listening to radio shows where you imagined  the Bonks 1 write i d rather have the violence offstage Lor the most a. Pari hot."1 shot her in one eve to see the express. Ion in the  ,. That s not Iny kind of  she pauses. A i Hope the a Lusht. Is there. I Hope you re involved. 1 Hope you re worried Quot sex takes a hard look at kids who a served by Patricia Walsh United press International. I is a question they must face Over and Over a question that makes them cringe every time they hear it where Are you. From   perhaps no other single question More quickly Points out the. Difference Between themselves and the civilian world. /. A Quot  do not relish the a where Quot from question and go through life vainly trying to Parry it a said author Mary Edwards Wertsch herself the daughter of an army col one i in  legacies of childhood inside the fortress Crown publishers. A some answer ,.�?T others a every where a a she continued Quot the moment it is asked it sets rip a Barrier Between the military Hrat and the civilian . _  five years interviewing some to adult military.brat.? whose fathers served in the army,.navy, marines and air Force the Quot result is a comprehensive Well written and moving study of the effects of military life on. Children a who Quot server with no recognition. Or glory. J. A she finds that drinking among Servie Emem Bers and resulting alcoholism has  effect on children. Meanwhile fathers who must Wear Warrior Crown publishers,.inc. Mary Edwards Wertsch masks Oil the Job Haye a hard time  off at Home sometimes becoming Bathori tarian rulers. Daughters of author Itai Ian lathers Are virtually invisible while their sons Are Only Loo visible a expected to live up to their lather s Warrior image. / even in the Best families continual moving makes the children outsiders who grow up afraid of commitment and allergic to words such As Quot permanent ant  they by come skilled at adapting to change and. On the surface appear confident and outgoing. But inside they Are passive wailing for someone. Else to give the orders in their life. And they can to even romantically Call themselves nomads because nomads move As a tribe surrounded by friends find Large families. A a there is no easy Label for  Wertsch a said. And a fellow a such As this reviewer a can Only agree. Whodunit writers sought in san Diego hid 1976 Mary Higgins Clark the la Jolla Library has announced a resurrection of sorts. But the rebirth planned in this bougainvillea scented san Diego Community has religious significative Only to those who think of Raymond Chandler As some kind of cult and who regard Philip Marlowe Chandler s witty and  As the Patron Saint of hard. Boiled Gumshoe a seeking to raise awareness about its own Signild a a canes As the Model for chaqder�?Ts fictional Village a of Esmeralda la Jolla has organized an Quot International imitation Raymond Chandler writing con. Test Quot to serve As the Centrepiece for the la Jolla Library festival 111-1991 in july and1 August. A a the Competition claims As its own inspiration the 1 Leming Vay. Write alike contest held for Many years by Many so a and Grill in  Angeles. The la Jolla Library festivals to chair people Pat Schachl Zhilin and i ois Dechant. Promise that if the Chandler Conlest can generate enough attention a it might become an annual . After Many years of Honing his Craft in the pulps. Chandler achieved major Success with the Publica Tiomi of the Lily sleep in 1959. Marlowe the. Blunt. And honorable detective who was concerned with Sav ing society from moral corruption appeared As the protagonist in Trenell my Lovely 194 1 then i he High h Lmke 1942. 77ie. Ludy in the like 1945. 77ie  sorer 1949the  Good Nef 1954 and to Shnek 1958 ,. Chandler once said that Marlowe was Quot a simple a a alcoholic bulgarian who never sleeps with his c i a. Ends while on duly later he said of his detective   failure and knows it. But a lot of. A Good men have been failures  partic a a Ula r talents did not suit their time and  a. In the 1940s, i handler  Success in ins Job As a Hollywood screenwriter. He hated. The work  enough Money to enter into  and. Flee Hollywood for the la. Jolla Section of sail Diego in 1946. A a the gentle air of la Jolla helped soothe the. Fragile lungs of Chandler s , 17 years his senior and frail. Frum Whai has been described As Quot a Tybros is Quot of the lungs. A.  death in 1955, Chandler began a downward alcoholic spiral. He stared at the. Ocean and drank and drank. Chandler died alone 011 March 26, 1959. The. Cause of death was Lis Tedas bronchial pneumonia seventeen people attended his funeral service at mount Hope cemetery. A a. A. To qualify for the imitation Chandler writing. Contest entries must average 5 h words in length and must mention la Jolla a prizes Range from $500 to $700. Information is available Ivun the friends of the la Jolla i a Harv 1257 Virginia Way. La Jolla. Ca 92057. I t  i Mph run a los Angeles times sunday june 23, 1991