Scott Free

Transgender insurance investigator Scotti House gets caught up in a kidnapping plot among the rich in the Hamptons. Marijane Meaker is an American novelist and short story writer in several genres using different pen names. From 1952 to 1969 she wrote twenty mystery and crime novels as 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 the 1950s and 1960s, she wrote a series of nonfiction books as Ann Aldrich from 1955 to 1972. In 1972 she switched genres and pen names once more to begin writing for young adults, and became quite successful as M.E. Kerr.