Peyton Place

Peyton Place
Author: Grace Metalious
Publisher:
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1956
Genre: Cities and towns
ISBN:

Allison MacKenzie looks back on life in the New England town where she grew up around the time of Pearl Harbor.

The 'Peyton Place' Murder

The 'Peyton Place' Murder
Author: Renee Mallett
Publisher: WildBlue Press
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2021-01-15
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1952225612

This true crime history examines the surprising connection between an infamous small-town murder and the bestselling novel it inspired. Born and raised in Manchester, New Hampshire, Grace Metalious shocked the nation in 1956 with Peyton Place, her sexually charged debut novel about murder in a small town. It spawned a series of novels, two Hollywood movies, and a long-running television series on ABC. It also made Metalious a pariah in her hometown, where she became tabloid fodder until her untimely death at the age of thirty-nine. Unknown to most readers, the fictional story was inspired by a real crime known as “The Sheep Pen Murder,” which took place in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, in the late 1940s. Now historian Renee Mallett skillfully weaves together the lives of Metalious and Barbara Roberts, the confessed killer behind The Sheep Pen Murder. In The “Peyton Place” Murder, Mallett explores what happens when true crime and literature meet.

Unbuttoning America

Unbuttoning America
Author: Ardis Cameron
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2015-04-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 080145610X

In this lively account of the writing, publication, and legacy of the 1956 bestselling novel, "Peyton Place," Ardis Cameron tells how the story of a patricide in a small New England village became a cultural phenomenon.

The Seasons of Grace

The Seasons of Grace
Author: Dave O. Dodge
Publisher: Glue Pot Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2021-09-15
Genre: Women authors, American
ISBN: 9781737942306

"'I am trapped,' she screamed silently, no one in the room hearing her inner pleas. 'I am trapped in a cage of poverty and mediocrity and If I don't get out I will die.' Only the sound of her typewriter could be heard that night echoing throughout the shack that she had called home. Grace Metalious wrote the stories that no one dared to write before that time. A midcentury tale of small-town life in New England to the hustle and bustle of New York City and to the unforgiving film studios of Hollywood, her story unfolds. Her infamous novel Peyton Place catapulted her from obscurity to the top of the literary world. This is a classic scenario where art imitates life and so does this novel. The young author coping with literary and financial success, without realizing it creates her own Peyton Place where she herself had to reside. The seasons of Grace is a fictional account based on the author's life; sometimes dark, sometimes shocking, but always authentic"--Back cover.

Inside Peyton Place: The Life of Grace Metalious

Inside Peyton Place: The Life of Grace Metalious
Author:
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 430
Release:
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781604736311

"Grace refused to be confined by the fifties' notion of a woman's place. In her struggle to find herself, she lifted the lid off sex and violence, power and powerlessness, truth and hypocrisy, and became known as the Pandora in Blue Jeans.".

Summary of Renee Mallett's The 'Peyton Place' Murder

Summary of Renee Mallett's The 'Peyton Place' Murder
Author: Milkyway Media
Publisher: Milkyway Media
Total Pages: 17
Release: 2024-03-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Get the Summary of Renee Mallett's The 'Peyton Place' Murder in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The 'Peyton Place' Murder" by Renee Mallett delves into the life of novelist Grace Metalious and the real-life murder that may have inspired her famous novel "Peyton Place." Born Marie Grace De Repentigny, Metalious grew up in a French-Canadian immigrant community in Manchester, New Hampshire, where she developed a passion for storytelling. Despite her mother's aspirations for a better life, the family faced financial struggles, which Grace escaped through her writing...

Return to Peyton Place

Return to Peyton Place
Author: Grace Metalious
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2011-03-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 155553760X

The continuing story of Peyton Place is once again available in paperback

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Author: Holly Jackson
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2020-02-04
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1984896385

THE MUST-READ MULTIMILLION BESTSELLING MYSTERY SERIES—COMING SOON TO NETFLIX! • This is the story about an investigation turned obsession, full of twists and turns and with an ending you'll never expect. Everyone in Fairview knows the story. Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyone could talk about. And five years later, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts her town. But she can't shake the feeling that there was more to what happened that day. She knew Sal when she was a child, and he was always so kind to her. How could he possibly have been a killer? Now a senior herself, Pip decides to reexamine the closed case for her final project, at first just to cast doubt on the original investigation. But soon she discovers a trail of dark secrets that might actually prove Sal innocent . . . and the line between past and present begins to blur. Someone in Fairview doesn't want Pip digging around for answers, and now her own life might be in danger. And don't miss the sequel, Good Girl, Bad Blood! "The perfect nail-biting mystery." —Natasha Preston, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Goodnight Nobody

Goodnight Nobody
Author: Jennifer Weiner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2006-05-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0743470125

Having relocated to an alienating Connecticut suburb after a mugging in her native New York City, wife and mother Kate Klein undertakes a murder investigation during her children's school hours when a local mom is killed.

Peyton Place

Peyton Place
Author: David Trinidad
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781933527819

This is the continuing story of Peyton Place in seventeen irrepressible syllables. One irreverent haiku for each weekly television episode.