Inge wrote two novels, both set in the fictional town of Freedom, Kansas. In "Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff" (Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1970), high-school Latin teacher Evelyn Wyckoff loses her job because she has an affair with the school's black janitor. The novel's themes include spinsterhood, racism, sexual tension and public humiliation during the late 1950s. Polly Platt wrote the screenplay for the 1979 film adaptation starring Anne Heywood as Evelyn Wyckoff. The film was released under several titles: "The Shaming", "The Sin", "Secret Yearnings" and "Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff".