Patte Wheat's By Sanction of the Victim is a fictional account, set in the 1970s.[27] The artist and feminist author Kate Millett dealt with the subject in a number of works. She wrote a semi-fictional book relating to the incident, The Basement: Meditations on a Human Sacrifice. Millett later stated her belief that "Gertrude seems to have wanted to administer some terrible truthful justice to this girl: that this was what it was to be a woman."[26] Mendal Johnson's only novel, Let's Go Play at the Adams', in which a 20-year-old babysitter is kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by a handful of teens whom she had been assigned to sit, was influenced by this case.[28] Author Lavinia Jewel wrote a crime novel in the first person of Sylvia and Jenny Likens (alternating between chapters), documenting the murder in The Punishment Game Jack Ketchum's novel The Girl Next Door is loosely based on the murder.