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Book Synopsis Lesbian Detective Fiction by : Phyllis M. Betz
Download or read book Lesbian Detective Fiction written by Phyllis M. Betz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-07-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines how lesbian detective and mystery fiction represents lesbian characters and experience within the confines of the genre. As this book points out, such fiction reveals the lesbian's increasing visibility in the wider society. Nevertheless, it can still be difficult to find a complete representation of lesbian life in mainstream literature. Often the best place to find the lesbian represented in books is within the pages of genre fiction--especially the detective story. This book looks at how the lesbian characters' public and private lives intersect--often at the point of coming out, or of moving from isolation to connection with the community. Also considered is the lesbian detective's typical confrontation with two crucial elements of the investigator's role: the use of violence and the acquisition and expression of authority within police systems. Other topics of discussion include the cultural environments in which the stories are situated, and the use of humor as a key weapon in the lesbian detective's investigative arsenal.
Book Synopsis The Gay Detective Novel by : Judith A. Markowitz
Download or read book The Gay Detective Novel written by Judith A. Markowitz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gertrude Stein called it “the only really modern novel form that has come into existence,” yet the mystery genre was a century old before it featured its first gay main character in a novel. Since then, gay and lesbian detective fiction has been one of the fastest growing segments of the genre. It incorporates gay and lesbian cultural elements and offers crossover appeal. Its authors call upon a century of development in the mystery genre, while providing new, more accurate images of lesbians and gay men than generally found in mainstream literature and popular media. This groundbreaking study of gay and lesbian detective fiction examines mystery series and historically significant stand-alone novels published since the early 1960s. Part I is an overview that describes how these novels make gay and lesbian life visible and forge new, powerful images. It also examines how they fit into the larger history of mystery fiction. The series analyses in Part II are grouped according to the type of main character (police officer, private investigator, amateur sleuth, etc.). Each section discusses main and secondary characters of that type, characteristic themes for the group, and more. The analyses of individual series cover main characters, themes, plot points and other elements. Comments from authors interviewed for this book play a central role in those analyses. Part III lists series-spanning themes (e.g., homophobia, the closet, gay marriage) and the novels and series that address each of those themes.
Book Synopsis Hostage to Murder (Lindsay Gordon Crime Series, Book 6) by : V. L. McDermid
Download or read book Hostage to Murder (Lindsay Gordon Crime Series, Book 6) written by V. L. McDermid and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2008-12-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hostage to Murder, the long-awaited sixth Lindsay Gordon mystery, is a lightning-paced story spliced with crackling action and an intense emotional dimension.
Book Synopsis Murder at the Nightwood Bar by : Katherine V. Forrest
Download or read book Murder at the Nightwood Bar written by Katherine V. Forrest and published by Kate Delafield Mystery. This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dory Quillin, nineteen-years old, her white-blonde hair ruffled by the gentle breezes of a June evening, lies dead in the parking lot of a lesbian bar. Her bewildered silver-blue eyes stare beseechingly into the mind and soul of the woman who kneels beside her: LAPD homicide detective Kate Delafield. The investigation is far from a simple matter. Kate uncovers shocking facts about the brief life of the murdered young lesbian. She finds her road to the killer obstructed by Dory's uncooperative, judgmental parents, the waning interest of her own partner, and most frustrating of all, the open hostility of women who should be her allies--the lesbians who frequent the Nightwood Bar. Kate's emotional equilibrium is further disturbed by her powerful attraction to one of those women, the enigmatic Andrea Ross. Who killed Dory Quillin? And why? Accompany Kate Delafield on her electrifying, emotional journey to the answer, an answer you will never forget. A Kate Delafield Mystery Series Book 2.
Book Synopsis Anatomy of Murder by : Carl Darryl Malmgren
Download or read book Anatomy of Murder written by Carl Darryl Malmgren and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery fiction takes place in a centered world, one whose most distinctive characteristic is motivation (of behavior and signs). Built on a faith in foundations, it insists upon the solidity of social life, the validity of social conventions, and the sanctity of signs. Mystery assures us that motives exist for both words and deeds.".
Book Synopsis Murder in the Collective by : Barbara Wilson
Download or read book Murder in the Collective written by Barbara Wilson and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seattle printing collective owner Pam Nilsen is on the case when a member of the group turns up dead before a controversial merger Pam Nilsen and her twin sister, Penny, inherited Best Printing four years ago when their parents died in a car crash. Unwilling to sell their family legacy, the sisters turned it into a collective run by a cadre of activists whose arguments over the business can be just as impassioned as their support for progressive causes. But internal divisions at the collective pale in comparison to those between Seattle typesetters B. Violet and Moby Dick—once a single company that has since broken apart into an all-female (and lesbian-run) company, and an all-male (and quickly bankrupt) operation. Shortly after Best Printing and B. Violet begin discussing a merger, the offices of the typesetter are ransacked, one of their members nowhere to be found. Then an employee of Best Printing is found murdered. It appears as if someone will stop at nothing—not even murder—to prevent the merger. And it’s up to Pam to get to the bottom of this deadly turn of events before the killer strikes again. Murder in the Collective is the first book in the Pam Nilsen Mystery trilogy, which continues with Sisters of the Road and The Dog Collar Murders.
Book Synopsis Work for a Million : The Graphic Novel by : Amanda Deibert
Download or read book Work for a Million : The Graphic Novel written by Amanda Deibert and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Murder in the Closet by : Curtis Evans
Download or read book Murder in the Closet written by Curtis Evans and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the 1969 Stonewall Riots, LGBTQ life was dominated by the negative image of "the closet"--the metaphorical space where that which was deemed "queer" was hidden from a hostile public view. Literary studies of queer themes and characters in crime fiction have tended to focus on the more positive and explicit representations since the riots, while pre-Stonewall works are thought to reference queer only negatively or obliquely. This collection of new essays questions that view with an investigation of queer aspects in crime fiction published over eight decades, from the corseted Victorian era to the unbuttoned 1960s.
Book Synopsis Harriet the Spy by : Louise Fitzhugh
Download or read book Harriet the Spy written by Louise Fitzhugh and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon to be an Apple TV+ animated series starring Golden Globe nominee Beanie Feldstein and Emmy Award winner Jane Lynch, it's no secret that Harriet the Spy is a timeless classic that kids will love! Harriet M. Welsch is a spy. In her notebook, she writes down everything she knows about everyone, even her classmates and her best friends. Then Harriet loses track of her notebook, and it ends up in the wrong hands. Before she can stop them, her friends have read the always truthful, sometimes awful things she’s written about each of them. Will Harriet find a way to put her life and her friendships back together? "What the novel showed me as a child is that words have the power to hurt, but they can also heal, and that it’s much better in the long run to use this power for good than for evil."—New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot
Download or read book The Gay Detective written by Lou Rand and published by Cleis Press Start. This book was released on 2012-04-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the fictional Bay City, a thinly disguised San Francisco circa 1960, The Gay Detective is a hardboiled camp novel centering around a baffling blackmail and murder ring. When the latest corpse turns up and police realize they are faced with still another dead end, they contact the Morely Agency, a detective outfit recently bequeathed to the late Mr. Morely's nephew.
Book Synopsis The Lesbian Private Eye by : Megan Casey
Download or read book The Lesbian Private Eye written by Megan Casey and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive study of the lesbian private eye novel. It includes a list of every known mystery featuring a lesbian private investigator from the first appearance of Helen Keremos in 1978 through 2020. The book includes a brief discussion about each PI as well as 100 full-length book reviews by the author.
Book Synopsis Torn between Two Genres by : Inga Simpson
Download or read book Torn between Two Genres written by Inga Simpson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lesbian detective fiction’s radical origins took the mystery genre to the extreme of the rape of the detective. More contemporary works foreground lesbian sex, romance, and identity. As a result, lesbian detective fiction has not continued to develop and failed to engage a wider audience. The author’s analysis includes works by M.F. Beal, Stella Duffy, Katherine V. Forrest, Clare McNab, Barbara Wilson, and Eve Zaremba. This article originally appeared in Clues: A Journal of Detection, Volume 27, Issue 2.
Book Synopsis The Lady Investigates by : Patricia Craig
Download or read book The Lady Investigates written by Patricia Craig and published by Victor Gollancz. This book was released on 1981 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report for Murder by : V. L. McDermid
Download or read book Report for Murder written by V. L. McDermid and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First in the popular series featuring Lindsay Gordon, a self-proclaimed 'cynical socialist lesbian feminist journalist' with a penchant for hanging around police interrogation rooms under suspicion of some crime or other.
Book Synopsis Everything You Have is Mine by : Sandra Scoppettone
Download or read book Everything You Have is Mine written by Sandra Scoppettone and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private detective Lauren Laurano is pretty, funny, fashion-conscious - and gay. With the support of her beautiful psychotherapist lover, Kip, it is up to Lauren to solve the murder of a wealthy young woman who made one too many connections through a computer dating service.
Book Synopsis Lesbian Detective Fiction by : Claire Black
Download or read book Lesbian Detective Fiction written by Claire Black and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Smoke Before Fire by : A.M. McKnight
Download or read book Smoke Before Fire written by A.M. McKnight and published by A.M. McKnight. This book was released on 2021-03-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assaults, petty thefts, robberies—it's all in a day's work for Detective Tessa Leonard, a veteran with Reid County, Virginia PD. The detective is committed to her busy work life but not so much to a love life. Once disappointed after rushing into love, Tessa is in no hurry to pursue romance again. Prosecutor Renee Hamilton is just as busy trying bad guys just as fast as Tessa and her fellow officers can arrest them. Long hours in the courthouse are more appealing to the dedicated attorney than anything offered by the County's social scene. She, too, was once let down by love and is now reluctant to open her heart again. But when simple vandalism escalates to arson and attempted murder involving ex-cons, drug dealers, and a bookie, things quickly heat up in Reid County. And to their surprise, the detective and the attorney find themselves in a slow-burn romance as Tessa and Renee discover there's more to life when it comes to love. Follow Tessa and Renee as they take down tough guys while taking on each other.
