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Fiction of Gay Interest
Plot / Content: Rating: G "Tough, ruthless Ben Orton, police chief of a sunny little California beach town called La Caleta, had a gift for making enemies. So when he ended up dead with his skull smashed in, no one was too surprised. But when Cliff Kerlee, hot-tempered, gay-activist owner of a nursery, is jailed for the murder, Dave Brandstetter is sceptical. Brandstetter, death-claims investigator for the company that insured Ben Orton's life, can't get Orton's widow to talk to him. Orton's police-officer son slashes Dave's tyres and rips up his motel room. Orton's daughter is missing from college and no one seems to want her found. "Richard T Nowell, homosexual scion of La Caleta's oldest and wealthiest family, had reason to hate both Orton and Kerlee. Could he have killed the one and framed the other? What is the drunken old painter, Tyree Smith, trying to tell Dave in a slurred midnight phone call? What part did Mona Windrow and her art gallery play in Ben Orton's life - and death? Daisy Flynn, red-haired local TV newswoman, is edgy. Why does she send her young black male assistant to follow Dave - even into Dave's bed? And where do the framing of Anita Orton's boyfriend on a marijuana charge and the subsequent burning of the local radical paper fit into the puzzle?" (from the cover) Background / Biography:
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"In 1964 a tidal wave knocked down the shacks next to the abandoned fish cannery at La Caleta and the wreckage the Pacific didn't take bulldozers did. The cannery itself was strong and it remained as built, an end on the beach, the rest over the water, scaling its paint under a rusty corrugated-iron roof. Boards had dropped out of its side decks but the pilings were upright and still supported a winch crusty with old salt. A chain-link fence topped by sagging barbed wire enclosed the cannery grounds. NO TRESPASSING signs hung off the fence. Double gates fastened by a shiny chain and padlock cut off the road down to the loading bays, Weeds had broken the blacktop and sand had half smothered it." opening paragraph Secondhand booksellers |
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