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Story of the murder of Marian Baker by Edward Gibbs on Jan. 19, 1950, in Lancaster, Pa.
c. 1 autographed by the author ; c. 2 epilogue by Thomas C. Smith affixed to front end paper.
1st edition.
Summary
In this taut, horrifying account of Marian Baker's 1950 murder, Richard Gehman (1921-1972) describes a country setting and people among whom he grew up. It was a paradise until Marian Baker went missing. The author of thousands of articles and scores of books, Gehman was famous in his day, writing for TV Guide and running with celebrities. He grew up in Lancaster,PA, and returned there late in his life.
The co-author, Richard Gehman, was a native of Lancaster County, PA.
Notes
Richard Boyd Gehman (May 20, 1921 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania- died May 13, 1972 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) was an American author of five novels and 15 nonfiction books, as well as more than 3,000 magazine articles, including over 400 features.[1] Gehman wrote under many different pen names, such as Meghan Richards, Frederick Christian, Martin Scott, Michael Robinson and F.C. Uffelman.[2]Gehman attended McCaskey High School in Lancaster, and worked on several daily newspapers in Lancaster before joining the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in World War II. He served four years as a writer for The Oak Ridge Times in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. After the war he moved to Greenwich Village in New York City and began freelancing for Esquire, Life, Time, Cosmopolitan, Colliers, Argosy, True, Saga, and The Saturday Evening Post magazines. Gehman was an original Contributing Editor at Playboy.Gehman's circle of friends included many well-known American writers, editors, painters, and actors, including Robert Frost, Joseph Heller, E.B. White, Roger Angell, Jackson Pollack, Diane Arbus, Howard Memerov, Estelle Parsons, Jerry Lewis, Maurice Zolotow, Charlotte Zolotow, Morton Thompson and Anthony Hecht, among others. [from Wikipedia]
