European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 23, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse On killers by Jocelyn Hartford Cournal. A a Quot Tok Jet Ary Higgins Clark impeccably 1. A a a. Coif fed and elegantly dressed i i discreet sip of Black Coffee Al v and dives headlong into the lunch time topic of serial killers. In a it ves music Taves to dance Simon amp Schust Erthe Best Selling authors new novel a killer with a shoe fetish snares Young women through the personal ads. The ads open with the Cnoc on a loves music Lovei to dance.�?T�?T. Clark said the title and the idea for the Hook Quot just talked through my head a few years ago at the International crime writers Congress in new York where Fiji agent Bob Ressler was lecturing on a be. If killer who operated through the personals. Presto. A Best seller was born. 1 Clark has had an impressive string of them Starling with where arc the children in 1975, Lor which she received a $3000 Advance. It did so Well that Simon amp schuster gave her $500,000 for her next novel a stranger is watching. The Bucks really got big in 19ss, when Clark signed a $10.1 mini Ion contract with Simon amp schuster for four novels and a collection of Short stories. Clark fits the profile of the classic Over achiever. This is a woman who graduated Summit cum 1 Audi irom new Yorkus Fordham University when she was m her 50s and already writing Best Sellers. She has become known As a writer who plumbs beneath the surface of everyday Lile to find terror and one who has a taste for if amour. While my pretty one sleeps the first mystery she wrote Pniler her $10 million contract and one of the top 10 ii Tion Best Sellers of 19h9, unfurls in new a a a a a Yorkus fashion world. Loves music loves to dance is also set in the upscale world of ,.and the Mam character is an insecure Young woman whose parents Are two famous actors. Although Ultra violent novels Seei to he in rogue these Days. a More bloodless approach. A i Don t like to show violence a she said. �?o1 grew up listening to radio shows where you imagined the books i write. Id rather have the violence offstage Lor the most pail not11 shot her in one Eye to see the expression in the other.�?T.,. Thais not my kind of writ she pauses. A a a. A a. A i Hope the thre it is Here. I Hope you re involved. I Hope you re worried.�?�. File 19.76 at by Patricia Walsh untied press International it is a question they must face Over Gnu Over a question that makes them cringe every Lime they hear it where Are you from Ltd a a a a a a a a a. For military brats perhaps no other single question More quickly Points out the difference Between themselves and the civilian world. A military brats do not relish the a where from question and go through life vainly trying to Parry it a said author Mary Edward Wertsch herself the daughter of an army cot once in military brats legacies of childhood inside the fortress Crown publishers. A some answer a nowhere others a everywhere a Quot she continued a the moment it is asked it.,sets up a Barrier Between the military brat and the civilian questioner a. five years interviewing some so adult military brats whose fathers served in the army Navy marines and air Force. The result is a comprehensive Well written and moving study of the effects of military life on children a who a serve Quot with no. Recognition or glory. a. A a a a a. She Linds that drinking among Servic Einem hers and resulting alcoholism has devastating effect on children. Meanwhile lather who must w ear Warrior Mary Edwards Wertsch rown publishers inc. Masks on the Job have a hard time taking. Them off at Home sometimes becoming authoritarian rulers. Daughters of authoritarian lathers Are virtually invisible while their sons arc Only too visible a expected to live up to their fathers Warrior image. Even Best families continual moving makes the children outsiders who grow up at raid of commitment and allergic to words a a permanent and they become skilled at adapting to change and surface appear confident and outgoing but inside they Are passive waiting for someone else to give the their life. And they can to even romantically Call themselves nomads because nomads move As a tribe friends and Large families. Quot there is no easy Label Lor us a Wertsch said. And brat such As this reviewer cannily agree. A a a. Whodunit writers sought in san Diego Mary Higgins Clark the la Jolla Library has. Announced a Resur Lection of sorts but the rebirth planned in this. Bougainvillea scented san Diego Community has religious significance Only to those who think of Raymond. Chandler As some kind of cult and who regard Philip Marlowe chandlery a w itty and Tough detective As the Patron Saint of hard a boiled Gumshoe. A. Seeking to raise awareness about i sown significance As the Model for chandlery a fictional Village a of Esmeralda la Jolla has organized an Quot internal. Lional imitation Raymond Chandler writing serve As the Centrepiece for the la Jolla. Libi Ary festival ii i-1.99-1 in july and August. The Competition claims As its own inspiration the Hemingway write alike contest held for Many years by Harry s bar and Grill in los Angeles. A the la. Juila Library festivals co chair people Pat so Hael Chilili and Lois do Chung tile handler contest can generate enough at tension a it. Might become an annual event a a a years of Honing his Craft in the pulps Chandler achieved major Success with the publication of 1 he Jig sleep in 1939. Marlowe the Blunt and honorable detective who was concerned with see ing society from moral corruption appeared As the protagonist in h Rcw Ell my Lovely 194 1 then. Vie High window 1942the lady in the Lake 19437vie Little sister 1949. The Long goodbye and ski Huek -195n. A a a Chandler once sail be was a a a simple a alcoholic bulgarian who never sleeps with his Cli cents while on duty a a later Fie said detective a mar Lowers a failure and knows it. But a lot of Good men have been failures because their Saftic a ular talents did not suit their time and a. In the 1940s, Chandler Success. In his Job As a Hollywood screenwriter. He hated the York but Niide enough Money to enter into , and Dee Hollywood for the la Jolla Section of san Diego in j94fi. A the gentle air of la Jolla helped soothe the fragile lungs of chandlery a wife Cissy 17 years. His frail from what has been described As Quot a fibrosis a of the lungs. V. A after Cissye a death in 1955, Chandler began a downward Atesh Ploc spiral. He stared at the Ocean and drank and drank. Chandler died alone on March 2h, 1959. The cause of death was listed As broncliia.1 pneumonia. Seventeen people attended his funeral semen at mount Hope cemetery. A a a a a a. -. A a a a a to Quality Jor the in dilation Chandler writing contest must average 5 k words in a length la Aud must mention la Jolla. A .1 Rizzs Range soon to $700. Information is the friends of the la Jolla Library 125.7-Virginia. . Jolla Ca 92037. Elizabeth Mehren. Los Angeles times Page 8. A. Sunday june 231. 1991
