A controversial "biographical novel" about the life of the West Seattle-born Frances Farmer. Arnold was the film critic for the local newspaper, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, in which this material first appeared as an article. The book is a fictionalized account which was further distorted when adapted as the film Frances in 1982. Arnold sued for copyright infringement, claiming the film's screenplay writers appropriated several of his "fictionalized" elements, but eventually lost.