Q&A Forum - January 2019

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Only a fool would engage in dangerous and unhealthy activities after reading about them in a fictitious book. In “Searching for Wanda” I shared the story of Alan and Audrey and how Alan became obsessed with trying to coax Audrey into becoming just like Hilda Mansell. Yet, neither Alan nor Audrey practiced anything that was unsafe. Audrey made sure that Alan was never totally bound and left alone, as he always had at least one hand free with the telephone within reach, and she refused to engage in the most risky activities that were portrayed in “An Excess of Love”.

Based on my research, Jac Lenders is a pseudonym author and it is entirely possible that “An Excess of Love” is 100% the result of the author’s fantasy as the book is a work of fiction. However, some have wondered if perhaps the author’s inspiration for writing the novel was a real life criminal case that occurred in the 1960’s where a woman was charged in the death of her husband, a prominent lawyer, who had died in a similar fashion as the author’s fictitious Michael Mansell. Unless the author was to come forward, which is unlikely, we will never know the answer to that question.