_The Deemster._ Rand McNally, 1888, Chicago; D. Appleton, 1888; numerous other editions, (m). A glorified friendship between two cousins ends in murder.
CALDWELL, ERSKINE. _Tragic Ground._ Little, Brown & Co, 1944, pbr Signet 1948, fco.
CAPOTE, TRUMAN. _Breakfast at Tiffany’s._ Random House 1958, pbr Signet 1959. In the story of a promiscuous, rather pathetic girl, a sadistic lesbian neighbor brings on violent events. Everything very subtle and indirect.
_Other Voices, Other Rooms._ Random House 1948, pbr Signet 1959. Young boy slowly falling under the influence of a decadent uncle who is a transvestite. Macabre.
CARCO, FRANCIS. _Depravity._ pbo Berkley 1957.
Both of these books hint at lesbianism on the cover blurbs, but are, rather, highly risque French novels with brief, irrelevant and heterosexually oriented contact between women characters strictly for voyeuristic effect.
CARPENTER, EDWARD. _Iolaus_; _an Anthology of Friendship._ N. Y., Albert & Charles Boni, 1935, (m). Listed as “the first of its kind”, this is said also to be “very vague and old-fashioned.”
+ CASAL, MARY. _The Stone Wall. An Autobiography._ Chicago, Eyncourt Press, 1930. In casual, conversational and entirely frank form, a woman born in 1865 (and therefore, at the time of writing, in her sixties) tells the story of her entire life as a lesbian. With the exception of “slightly autobiographical”—and always greatly disguised—fiction, this is probably the earliest such memoir in the literature. The writing is highly competent and professional, (subtly denying the author’s insistence that she was not a writer;) and filled with most interesting revelations about the lesbian world of New York and Paris at the turn of this century. Unfortunately the book is rare and expensive, but it stands alone as a classic of its kind.
CHAMALES, TOM T. _Go Naked in the World._ N. Y. Scribners 1959. Nick Stratton, wounded veteran, returns to find that his girl friend is a call-girl and a lesbian.
CHANDLER, RAYMOND. _The Big Sleep._ Knopf 1939, pbr Pocket Books 1950, and others. (m). The bizarre murder of a homosexual hoodlum, and the interrogation of his boy friend, form important sequences in this hard-boiled murder mystery.