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Shock to the system : a Donald Strachey mystery
Stevenson, Richard, 1938-New York : Southern Tier Editions, Harrington Park Press, [2007]Gay P.I. Donald Strachey is hired to investigate the death of Paul Haig, whom his mother believes was murdered by his lover, Larry. Donald learns that Larry also believes that Paul was murdered--by controversial gay conversion therapist Vernon Crockwell. --
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Blackmail, my love : a murder mystery
Gilmartin, KatieFirst edition. - Berkeley, CA : Cleis Press, [2014]"Josie O'Conner travels to San Francisco in 1951 to locate her gay brother, a private dick investigating a blackmail ring targeting lesbians and gay men. Jimmy's friends claim that just before he disappeared he became a rat, informing the cops on the bar community's nascent resistance to raids, graft, and brutality. Josie adopts Jimmy's trousers and wingtips as well as his investigation, battling to clear his name, halt the blackmailers, and exact justice for the mounting number of Queer corpses. Along the way she rubs shoulders with a sultry chanteuse running a dyke tavern called Pandora's Box; gets intimate with a red-headed madame operating a brothel from the Police Personnel Department; and conspires with the star of Finocchio's a dive so disreputable it's off limits to servicemen--so every man in uniform pays a visit. Blackmail, My Love is an illustrated murder mystery deeply steeped in San Francisco's Queer history. Established academic and first-time novelist Katie Gilmartin's diverse set of characters negotiate the risks of same-sex desire in what can arguably be called the Dark Ages of Queerdom. Humor leavens the grave subject matter. The novel's action is fueled by a little-known 1951 California Supreme Court ruling that homosexuals have a right to congregate: the decision incited tavern owner resistance to customary payoffs in exchange for police protection, but also provoked new surveillance tactics to justify raids and extortion. Set in such legendary locations as the Black Cat Cafe, the Fillmore during its heyday as jazz capitol of the west, the Beat movement's North Beach, and the sexually complex Tenderloin, Blackmail, My Love is neo-noir novel that distills history and fiction into a singular, visually stunning experience"--
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Death with Dignity : a mystery
Ricardo, JackFirst edition - Austin, Texas : Banned Books, ©1991Private investigator Jim Halden has joined his local chapter of Dignity, an organization of gay Catholic men and women. At Jim's second meeting, Deacon Pete, recently estranged from his wife and newly out of the closet, is found dead behind the altar--strangled. The list of suspects is long and the fact that Halden isn't always on good terms with the local authorities won't make the job any easier. With some less-than-welcome help from a couple of slightly deranged suspects and an additional murder or two along the way, he sets out to find the murderer
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