In 1959 Grace Metalious returned to this town, hoping to cash in on the success of her earlier novel
In her book Metalious tore away the staid facade of Peyton Place (or 
Gilmanton,... [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "Columbia Library Columns Volume XLIII Number 1" [PAR] Return to Peyton Place (1959), sold four million copies in paperback and was 
also made into a film (1961).