Fiction?

[BBech25322]

In Subject: Fiction, Ratbat writes:

>Subject: Fiction?
>From: Ratbat <u96...@student.canberra.edu.au>
>Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 22:29:23 +1100
>Message-id:
<Pine.SOL.3.91.97011...@student.canberra.edu.au>

>[Lurking cloak off!]
>Hi!

>Does anyone know of any fiction (be it short stories, novels, on-line,
>off-line, books, films, whatever) that concerns naturism? IE, is set
>amongst a naturist community, has prominent naturist characters, etc.

I too, have been lurking, but this is a subject I'm familiar with.

There are several novels and murder mysteries that use nudists, nudist
parks,
etc. as an element. Unfortunately, most are old and long out-of-print.

The Cool Cottontail, by John Ball, 1966
A dead body is found in the swimming pool at Oakdale Guest Ranch
(a real nudist park, later Treehouse Fun Ranch, and now Buff Creek)
Det. Virgil Gibbs(In the Heat of the Night) is assigned to the case.

Furtive Nudist, by Ken Campbell, 1992

Barely Proper: An Unplayable Play, by Tom Cushing, 1931
A cute play about a proper English lad falling in love with a
German girl at University. He doesn't find out she come from
a nudist family until that fateful first visit to the girl's house.

World Without Raiment, by Louise Dardenalle, 1943
An apocolyptic event sends refugees in search of safety. One group
finds
nudists who have been at peace.

Bare Living, by Elmer Davis and Guy Holt, 1933
A young stockbrokerage employee discovers criminal activity by his boss
and flees with evidence. His car breaks down behind a nudist camp, and
he finds himself staying.

Murder Among the Nudists, by Peter Hunt, 1934
A woman is killed by electrocution in a nudist camp. Is it an accident?

Yesterday's Sin, by H. A. Keller, 1934
A society girl is orphaned and sent to live with her uncle in a nudist
camp.

God's Hitchhiker, by Edmund Kiernan, 1955
A long venture in search of tranquility -- guess where it is found.

Nymph Errant, by James Laver, 1932
A society girl graduates finishing school and latches onto men on the
train
home, rather than go back to her old aunt. One of the young men is an
avid
nudist who takes her to live at a German nudist park.

The Bishops Jaegers, by Thorne Smith, 1941
A group leaves sinking ferry in the Hudson River on a lifeboat. They
have
no idea where they are in the fog, but are rescued by nudists who
believe in
enforced nudity.

Scandals at a Nudist Colony, by William Vaneer, 1953
Sensational fiction

The New Crusade, by Anthony Gibbs, 1934
A millionaire feels life has passed him by, so he hires people to live
the
new nudist lifestyle and promote it worldwide so he can observe.

Strip for Murder, by Richard Prather, 1955
P. I. Shell Scott has to go undercover (uncovered?) to find his prey in
a
nudist camp.

A Healthy Body, by Gillian Linscott, 1984
A murder in a French nudist resort.

Hope is is of some interest.

Boyd Bechtel
BBech...@aol.com

[mike...@aol.com]

In article <19970122140...@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
bbech...@aol.com (BBech25322) writes:

>Det. Virgil Gibbs(In the Heat of the Night) is assigned to the case.

name was TIBBS