Obsession

Tom Gurr and H. H. Cox

Pub Frederick Muller, London, 1958. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Good+. No Jacket. First Edition. 254 pages.

Crime Fiction but firmly based on the true account of two New Zealand schoolgirls who, in June, 1954, murdered the mother of one of them believing that she was frustrating their unconventional happiness in lesbian love. This case was later a film by Peter Jackson entitled 'Heavenly Creatures'. One of the two girls later became a well-known crime writer.