Spoken in Darkness Small-Town Murder and a Friendship Beyond Death by Imbrie, Ann E - 1993

Hyperion. New in Very Good dust jacket. 1993. First Printing. Hardcover. The pages are clean, no tears or soiling. The pages and binding are tight. Sorry about the photos they didn't copy well. ; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 261 pages; In this mesmerizing account, Ann Imbrie 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. The grew up in a small town in Ohio in the 1960's, "the perfect setting for impossible accidents, disasters that cannot happen and do. " In this world of seemingly placid surfaces, Lee was the stranger Ann was taught to fear. One young woman becomes a literature professor at Vassar, the other spirals downward into a life of poverty and petty crime that leads inexorably to a violent death. Years later, in order to understand her friend's fate, Ann retraces the Lee's steps and must confront anew taboos in her own family and in her hometown.. A haunting profoundly moving meditation on the dangers women face. Will combine shipping on more than one book. .