SPOKEN IN DARKNESS. Small-Town Murder and a Friendship Beyond Death

Hardback. The author recreates the lost life of her childhood friend, Lee Snavely, a beautiful and talented young woman who wound up a drug addict, a prostitute and the victim of a serial killer. They grew up together in a small town in Ohio in the 1960s. One young woman became a literature professor at Vassar; the other spiralled downward into a life of poverty and petty crime that led inexorably to a violent death. Years later, in order to understand her friend's fate, the author retraces Lee's steps and must confront taboos in her own family and in her hometown. A chronicle of the life of Lee Snavely and Gary Taylor, the man who murdered her. 261pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. in lightly sunned nr. f. dw.