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Plot / Content: Rating: G "It wasn't much to go on. A handkerchief smeared with lipstick was found on the body of a young hustler, last seen alive at the Royal Baths. New Year's Day wasn't the easiest time for a boy on the make, and Boston's Combat Zone had stopped Billy - dead. "For Police Lieutenant William Searcy it was a perfect set-up. He was dying for a crackdown and suddenly a gay murder had fallen into his lap. He wasn't about to let it go. "Enter gay bartender Daniel Valentine and his female sidekick Clarisse Lovelace, long-term friends, short-term lovers and the unlikeliest detective duo to ever hit the streets of Boston. And hit them they do - through a sinister underworld of bars and baths, bondage and blackmail, they're out to solve a most bizarre murder ... and uncover some very kinky games." (from the cover) Background / Biography: Nathan Aldyne was (is?) the pseudonym of two writers - Michael McDowell and Dennis Schuetz - who wrote at least two other crime novels featuring Valentine and Lovelace. Reviews: "Boston in January, fifteen degrees below zero, snow on the streets and nineteen-year-old Billy Golacinsky's murdered body dumped on a bigoted State Representative's lawn. Lieutenant William Searcy of the city's Vice Squad wants to know who killed this second-rate rent- boy, but his own sexual hang-ups get in the way of a thorough and unbiased investigation. Enter Daniel Valentine, gay bartender, and Clarisse Lovelace, estate agent, both of whom are indirectly involved and want to find the murderer before Searcy pins the crime on one of their friends. "The writing is easy and well-paced, the background of gay life - the bars, gym and bath-house - unobtrusively filled in, the relationship between Daniel and Clarisse amusing and believable. If the plot sometimes creaks and our imagination is occasionally stretched too far we can forgive the faults in the name of entertainment. And as in any good detective story, the murderer turns out to be both unexpected and apt." Martin Foreman for Gay News, September 1983 Arbery Books also sells secondhand and rare non-gay fiction and non-fiction. Click here for our full list. |
"The snow on the lawn was unmarred. Lawrence turned to look briefly up and down the road, which ended in a cul-de-sac two houses beyond. There were no footprints near the boy's body, but a faint set of tire tracks came up from the highway to the spot, and was repeated going down again. The boy had evidently been dumped shortly after the snow began to stick. Professor Philip Lawrence smiled with pleasure as he contemplated informing Representative Mario Scarpetti that the body of a young man had been deposited beneath his hemlocks. He glanced one more at the corpse and then stepped through the screen of evergreens, heading toward the house. " Secondhand booksellers |
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