Trinian wrote five or six Gold Medal books in the early sixties. He also wrote for television and the big screen, including for the Rockford Files. He is also known as Zekial Markel, but that might be another pen name.

This book was published in 1961 and takes place around San Francisco and Marin County. This is a love story and its a bit about the Beat Generation, about jazz musicians, wild parties, drinking, rebellion
against parents, nonconformity. There's even a woman who dyes her skin a different color every month, blue, green, orange, foreshadowing Ken Kessey and the merry pranksters.It's well written and the story is compelling, but it is a little disjointed as the focus of the tale shifts. All in all, it does well in giving the flavor
of the time in San Francisco.

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