Baby Godiva

Imagine being a young man (Carly) attracted to an innocent, naïve and beautiful young girl. Suddenly your world is turned upside down when a series of unfortunates accidents targets you as guilty of attacking and raping her. Even the girl: Godiva (Godie) says you’re guilty. Who will believe you?

Baby Godiva, by Marty Holland and published by Stark House Crime Fiction, examines the political, societal and sexual norms of the 1940s and 1950s.

No one will listen to Carly when he explains how Godie was injured and that there was someone else there hiding in the shadows by the swimming hole where the incident occurred.

The trial is overseen by a corrupt, adulterous Judge and a townspeople screaming for hangman justice with Carly’s fate hanging in the balance. Will he be saved from the electric chair?

Marty Holland started her career as a script typist and eventually her writing efforts were rewarded first in Pulp magazines and eventually screenplays.

Baby Godiva was very edgy for its time. It touched upon themes and subjects mostly ignored or avoided during that time period. Marty Holland pushed conventional writing and dared to speak of things mostly hidden in the shadows.

Isaiah 26:3Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.