Jacqueline Susann restaurant, Susann heard someone shout, "There's the Schiffli girl!" Susann, realizing that 25 years of hard work had culminated only in recognition as the "Schiffli girl," was discouraged." She later appeared in a 1971 episode of the crime drama "Mannix" ("The Crime That Wasn't", airdate January 29, 1971). During the mid-1950s, Susann had written a science-fiction novel called "The Stars Scream" (published posthumously as "Yargo"). In the early 1960s, she considered writing a book about show business and drug use, to be entitled "The Pink Dolls". In 1962, however, after encouragement from showman Billy Rose, husband of Susann friend Joyce
Yargo (novel) had enjoyed a huge success five years earlier when it published Susann's original novella, "Dolores". "Yargo" was published on February 28, 1979. Critical notices were negative: one critic wrote, "It's awful, as usual, and it will sell, as usual." "The Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review" stated that "Yargo" is "mildly entertaining," but "has no lasting value... except perhaps as a curiosity." "Yargo" was, nonetheless, a best seller, spending several weeks on the "New York Times" Mass Market Paperback list. Yargo (novel) Yargo is a romantic science fiction novel by Jacqueline Susann. It was written during the 1950s, but not