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Pub. Date
[1990]
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One would think teaching would be a quiet profession. But, not in Chicago, thinks high school teacher Tom Mason when he hears that one of his students has been accused of killing his girlfriend. As a friend of the boy's family, Tom is asked to help clear him, and the more he probes, the more it seems that something sinister is going on in the usually quiet suburbs of Chicago. With the aid of his lover Scoot Carpenter, a professional baseball player,...
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"Maggie Crozat is back home in bayou country during the most magical time of the year. In Pelican, Louisiana, Christmastime is a season of giant bonfires on the levee, zydeco carols, and pots of gumbo. Except, this year, the Grinch has come to stay at the family-run Crozat Plantation B and B. When he floods travel websites with vicious reviews, Maggie thinks she's identified him as rival businessman Donald Baxter -- that is, until he's found stabbed...
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Pub. Date
1991
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Father Sebastian, the only good priest everybody knows, is dead. Pastor of a parish outside Chicago, Father Sebastian was also involved in the gay community through his work with Faith, the gay Catholic organization the diocese is trying to drive out of the church.
High school teacher Tom mason, who has gained some local notoriety from his involvement in a couple of murder cases, is asked by friends to look into the priest's death; was it murder?...
5) Canary
Author
Pub. Date
1986
Description
A gay bar's business is getting killed-along with its clientele-in the final novel of this beloved mystery series set in early-eighties Boston.
Daniel Valentine is Boston's most fabulous gay bartender. Clarisse Lovelace is his straight-yet glorious-pal and business partner. Together they run Lovelace's bar. And also, when necessary, solve the occasional murder.
Lovelace's bar, once the darling of Boston's gay brigade, is losing money like crazy-mostly...
7) Vermilion
Author
Pub. Date
c1980
Description
Two misfit sleuths search for a street hustler's killer in this mystery series debut first published in 1980 and set in Boston's gay scene.
Daniel Valentine is a gay bartender and former social worker. Clarisse Lovelace is his straight pal who works in real estate. They make an unconventional investigative duo-but sometimes unconventional is exactly what's called for.
When Billy Golacinsky, a teenage street hustler, is found dead on the lawn of...
8) Slate
Author
Pub. Date
1984
Description
Daniel Valentine is a gay bartender. Clarisse Lovelace is his straight pal. From Boston's gay underground to the fabulous beaches of Provincetown, they do everything together (well, okay, not everything). And between it all, they still find time to solve a few murders.
When Clarissa is gifted a run-down building by her gay uncle Noah, she and Daniel decide to make a dream come true: opening their own gay bar. While Clarissa heads off to law school,...
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Series
Mrs. Murphy mysteries volume 5
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The annual steeplechase at Montpelier, the high point in the social calendar of the horse set in Virginia, is disturbed by the stabbing of two jockeys, each with a playing card attached to his body. Sleuth Mrs. Murphy and her cat investigate, wondering whether the motive was greed, drugs or sex.
Author
Series
Tom and Scott mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
c1989
Description
Simple Suburban Murder is the book that started it all--the debut novel of Lambda Literary Award winner Mark Richard Zubro.
When a gay high school teacher starts investigating a colleague's murder, he finds beneath the calm veneer of his Midwestern suburb a seamy underbelly of gambling, prostitution, and child abuse.
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Pub. Date
2017.
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"Chilson, Michigan, bookmobile librarian Minnie Hamilton and her rescue cat Eddie make a routine stop until Eddie hops into a pickup truck with a dead body in the flatbed. The friendly local lawyer who owns the pickup falls under suspicion, but Minnie and Eddie will risk their lives to get the full story"--
16) Backtrack
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Pub. Date
1987, c1982
Description
Alan Tarr refuses to accept a police explanation of the death of his father, a small-time actor, and decides to investigate