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Detective Murder Mystery Thriller
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Outhouse East Library1 / 14
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The Riverside Villas MurderA classic armchair mystery, THE RIVERSIDE VILLAS MURDER has for its hero a 14-year-old boy, Peter Furneaux.
Like all 14 year olds he is hovering hopefully on the brink between sexual inexperience and initiation, and in this book, under our very eyes, Peter suddenly becomes an adult!
A crime, truly murderous, is committed by an unknown and almost unidentifiable assailant. Only Peter begins to guess at the truth--a dangerous truth--which leads him to the river bank by moonlight. A delightful book, and as with all works by Kingsley Amis, guaranteed to please.
Kingsley Amis
1973
Fiction, Mystery
Book#: DMMT001
FrostFrost is more than an absorbing love story and an outstanding exposition of homosexual passion and tenderness by the modern master of the genre; it's a bitter parable of the lengths to which a political egomaniac may go as he claws his way to the top of the heap. MUST reading for every individual of whatever sex who feels threatened by the peril to personal freedom in America today!
McGraw was great at manipulating people to achieve his ambitions, with scandal, blackmail, and even murder- until he crossed swords with his son Frost, who refused to stay in the closet and mind his own business. Then McGraw found out that some of the pawns in his grim game of power had a weapon of their own, which he could never begin to understand.
AMOR VINCIT OMNIA, eventually!
Richard Amory
1973
Fiction, Gay, Thriller
Book#: DMMT002
TestosteroneA satirical, hysterical, horicic rocked fueled trek around LA in pursuit of the most unlucky ex-lover in history. Or maybe hes a psychotic. Or maybe the narrator is. Either way, someone is going to die.
James Robert Baker
2000
Fiction, Gay, Humour/Comedy, Mystery
Book#: DMMT003
Skin LaneAt 47, Mr. F's working life on London's Skin Lane is one governed by calm, precision and routine. So, when he starts to have frightening, recurring nightmares, he does his best to ignore them. The images that appear in his dream are disturbing - Mr. F can't for the life of him think where they have come from. After all, he's a perfectly ordinary middle-aged man. As London's crooked backstreets begin to swelter in the long, hot summer of 1967, Mr. F's nightmare becomes an obsession. A chance encounter adds a face to the body that nightly haunts him, and the torments of his sweat-drenched nights lead him - and the reader - deeper into a terrifying labyrinth of rage, desire and shame. Part fairy-tale, part compelling evocation of a now-lost London, Nell Bartlett's long-awaited third novel is his fiercest piece of writing yet: cruel, erotic, and tender.
Neil Bartlett
2007
Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
Book#: DMMT004
A Queer Kind of DeathNew York detective Pharoah Love believes the death of a young, handsome actor-model-hustler was no accident. But who killed him in his bathtub? His ex-lover? His agent? His reclusive sister? Pharoah Love thinks it might be one of these, but how do you outsmart an ingenious killer?
George Baxt
1979
Fiction, Gay, Mystery
Book#: DMMT005
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Outhouse East Library2 / 14
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Doing BusinessNo one seems to believe Gordon's claim to have witnessed a numder in a seedy Soho pub. ... He's almost persuaded to forget about it and pretend it's never happened. Until an attempt is made on his own life and there's a second killing -- soon it becomes obvious that the person behind the murders is one of Gordon's own group of friends and out to silence him.
Jeremy Beadle
1990
Fiction, Gay, Mystery, Romance
Book#: DMMT006
Second GuessAfter a year's leave of absence in New York, Detective Inspector Amanda Valentine is looking forward to life in the slow land in New Zealand. Instead she returns just in time for the most sensational homicide of the year.
The body of Sybil Knight, daughter of a former Ambassador to the United States, has been found trussed and battered in a private room in a lesbian sex club.
The potential for scandal surrounding Sybil's death considerably complicates Amanda's investigation. She finds herself caught between a voracious media and a powerful family determined to cover up the facts.
Rose Beecham
1994
Fiction, Lesbian, Mystery
Book#: DMMT007
Exquisite CorpseTo serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own death to escape from prison, Compton makes his way to the United States with the sole ambition of bringing his "art" to new heights. Tortured by his own perverse desires, and drawn to possess and destroy young boys, Compton inadvertently joins forces with Jay Byrne, a dissolute playboy who has pushed his "art" to limits even Compton hadn't previously imagined. Together, Compton and Byrne set their sights on an exquisite young Vietnamese-American runaway, Tran, whom they deem to be the perfect victim. Swiftly moving from the grimy streets of London's Piccadilly Circus to the decadence of the New Orleans French Quarter, and punctuated by rants from radio talk show host Lush Rimbaud, a.k.a. Luke Ransom, Tran's ex-lover, who is dying of AIDS and who intends to wreak ultimate havoc before leaving this world, Exquisite Corpse unfolds into a labyrinth of murder and love. Ultimately all four chara...
Poppy Z. Brite
1996
AIDS/HIV, Fiction, Gay, Mystery, Romance
Book#: DMMT008
His Mouth will Taste of WormwoodThis work comprises four contemporary horror stories taken from "Swamp Foetus".
Poppy Z. Brite
1995
Fiction, Short Story, Thriller
Book#: DMMT009
Dead Fingers TalkDead Fingers Talk, first published in 1963, combines sections from Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine and The Ticket That Exploded combined together to create a new narrative. Dead Fingers Talk, like many of Burroughs' works, was controversial upon its release. It was the subject of a scathing review in the Times Literary Supplement that resulted in a war of words between supporters and detractors of the novel (and Burroughs in general) that played out in the magazine's letters page for months.
William Burroughs
1963
Fiction, Mystery
Book#: DMMT010
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Outhouse East Library3 / 14
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Breakfast in BedlamIn this novel, a voyeur narrator describes the strange goings-on in a contemporary British hospital/asylum. Fallen sex symbol, Eugene de Trop, arrives for treatment, but his dream of a comeback and perfect sexual prosthetics becomes a nightmare.
Kim Carlson
1991
Fiction, Gay, Psychology, Sex, Thriller
Book#: DMMT011
The Man: A Hero for Our TimeA cross between a graphic novel and literary work, The Man: A Hero for Our Time is a moving and exhilarating story that examines one man's fight to conquer hatred in American society. Unable to forget the brutal death of his lover at the hands of a gay-basher, Adam reinvents himself, becoming The Man--America's first gay superhero. 13 full-page illustrations.
Robert Drake
1995
Fiction, Gay, Graphic Novel, Mystery
Book#: DMMT012
VictimWho was the master-mind behind a black-mailing racket involving many prominent people? What connection did Jack Barrett, whose body was found hanging in a police cell, have with the case? And what would happen to Melville Carr's hopes of becoming a Q.C. when he revealed that he too was once a homosexual?
William Drummond
1961
Fiction, Gay, Mystery
Book#: DMMT013
Point of IgnitionArson investigation is not exactly what firefighter Kate Chambers signed up for. But she doesn't have a choice when an injury forces her off the engine and into the office. Her first case, a fire at a downtown bar, is a clear-cut instance of insurance fraud, or so she thinks.
But the property co-owner and prime suspect, Alexi Clark, has spent too many years battling her own demons to quietly go to jail for a crime she didn't commit. Soon Alexi is fighting both the false charges against her and an unexpected attraction to the investigator determined to prove them.
Amid a blaze that threatens to consume them both, Kate and Alexi redefine love and trust.
Erin Dutton
2009
Fiction, Lesbian, Mystery, Romance
Book#: DMMT014
The Black DahliaA neo-noir crime novel from the legendary crime novelist James Ellroy. Los Angeles, 15th January 1947: a beautiful young woman walked into the night and met her horrific destiny.
Five days later, her tortured body was found drained of blood and cut in half. The newspapers called her 'The Black Dahlia'. Two cops are caught up in the investigation and embark on a hellish journey that takes them to the core of the dead girl's twisted life...
James Ellroy
2005
Fiction, Mystery
Book#: DMMT015
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Outhouse East Library4 / 14
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The Closet HangingThe gay aristocrat, Matt Sinclair, the scion of an old New Orleans family, is accused of murder. The victim was found hanged in a closet owned by Matt's family. And he can't account for his whereabouts due to temporary amnesia caused by an epileptic seizure.
Tony Fennelly
1987
Fiction, Gay, Mystery
Book#: DMMT016
The Beverly MalibuAs LAPD detective Kate Delafield investigates the Thanksgiving Day strychnine poisoning of retired movie director Owen Sinclair, she discovers that he turned over names to the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s and destroyed countless careers. But which of his charmingly eccentric neighbors, most of whom have worked in Hollywood since the 1940s, might be responsible for what now appears to be a revenge killing?
Katherine V. Forrest
2003
Fiction, Lesbian, Mystery, Romance
Book#: DMMT017
Hancock ParkLos Angeles detectives Kate Delafield and Joe Cameron have been assigned to investigate a homicide in the upscale neighborhood of Hancock Park. Suspected of murdering his ex-wife is Douglas Talbot - whose own children are more than willing to see him on death row.
And while Kate is trying to prove his innocence, her personal life gets complicated when her lover Aimee mysteriously disappears.
Katherine V. Forrest
2005
Fiction, Lesbian, Mystery
Book#: DMMT018
Liberty SquareIn Liberty Square, Kate Delafield's lover convinces her to attend a 25th reunion of those she served with in Vietnam. But as Kate's painful memories of the war resurface, a reunion guest is murdered, and everyone becomes a suspect - including Kate.
Katherine V. Forrest
2000
Fiction, Lesbian, Mystery
Book#: DMMT019
Murder at the Nightwood BarIn Murder at the Nightwood Bar, Kate investigates the murder of a homeless 19-year-old addict-prostitute, whose battered body is found outside a popular lesbian bar. In addition to penning the legendary Kate Delafield mystery series, Katherine V. Forrest has written the lesbian romantic classic Curious Wine and the science fiction novels Daughters of a Coral Dawn and Daughters of an Amber Noon.
Katherine V. Forrest
2003
Fiction, Lesbian, Mystery
Book#: DMMT020
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Outhouse East Library5 / 14
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Murder by TraditionWhen a successful gay restaurateur is stabbed to death, Kate Delafield¬s investigation puts her in conflict with her own fear of being outed as a lesbian. Can Kate testify for the prosecution with her integrity intact, when the killer¬s attorney, the only man who knows the truth about Kate'¬s sexuality, prepares a "homosexual panic"-defense? In addition to penning the legendary Kate Delafield mystery series, Katherine V. Forrest has written the lesbian romantic classic Curious Wine and the science fiction novels Daughters of a Coral Dawn and Daughters of an Amber Noon.
Katherine V. Forrest
2003
Fiction, Gay, Lesbian, Mystery
Book#: DMMT021
Face Me When You Walk AwayAfter his release from a Siberian gulag, a Soviet negotiator discovers that freedom in Russia can be just as dangerous as imprisonment
Josef Bultova nearly died in a Russian prison camp. Once one of the Soviet Union's most adept international negotiators, his work with the West grew so intimate that the suspicious Politburo exiled him to Siberia. The meager food, heavy work, and bitter cold took its toll, sapping his strength until, just as he was sure he could no longer go on, the Politburo let him go.
Now Josef has a new assignment: shepherding a provincial Russian author whose evocative portrayals of life in the impoverished countryside have him on the shortlist for the Nobel Prize. Josef's task is to ensure that the author wins the prize - whatever the cost. But as Moscow watches his every move, Josef realizes that he may not have escaped the gulag after all.
Brian Freemantle
1974
Fiction, Thriller
Book#: DMMT022
BacktrackAlan Tarr refuses to accept a police explanation of the death of his father, a small-time actor, and decides to investigate.
Joseph Hansen
1987
Fiction, Mystery
Book#: DMMT023
Death ClaimsDeath Claims is the second of Joseph Hansen's acclaimed mysteries featuring ruggedly masculine Dave Brandstetter, a gay insurance investigator. When John Oats's body is found washed up on a beach, his young lover April Stannard is sure it was no accident. Brandstetter agrees: Oats's college-age son, the beneficiary of the life insurance policy, has gone missing.
Joseph Hansen
1980
Fiction, Gay, Mystery
Book#: DMMT024
FadeoutFadeout is the first of Joseph Hansen's twelve classic mysteries featuring rugged Dave Brandstetter, an insurance investigator who is contentedly gay. When entertainer Fox Olson's car plunges off a bridge in a storm, a death claim is filed, but where is Olson's body? As Brandstetter questions family, fans, and detractors, he grows certain Olson is still alive and that Dave must find him before the would-be killer does. Suspenseful and wry, shrewd and deeply felt, Fadeout remains as fresh today as when it startled readers more than thirty years ago.
Joseph Hansen
1980
Fiction, Gay, Mystery
Book#: DMMT025
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Outhouse East Library6 / 14
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The Man Everybody Was Afraid ofPolice Chief Ben Orton had a gift for making enemies. When his body was found, head smashed in, the people of his seaside domain were shocked--less because of the gruesome murder than because someone had finally dared to cross Ben Orton.
Joseph Hansen
1985
Fiction, Gay, Mystery
Book#: DMMT026
NightworkIn a remote spot outside L.A, a giant truck suddenly plunges in flames off a mountain road at midnight. It looks like an accident, but it isn't. Someone had fastened a bomb under the truck, killing owner-driver, Paul Myers who was insured for $100,000. Crack insurance investigator, Dave Brandsetter is called in to find out what happened and why. Why was Myers hauling in that secluded spot at that hour and for whom? No one wants to answer Dave's questions but then another trucker's death arouses suspicions and a pattern begins to emerge.
Joseph Hansen
1985
Fiction, Gay, Mystery
Book#: DMMT027
SkinflickA new crime novel featuring insurance investigator, Dave Brandstetter, who finds too many loose ends to tie up when he investigates a murder. The investigation takes him from an evangelical church to the seedy world of teenage drugs and prostitution.
Joseph Hansen
1985
Fiction, Gay, Mystery, Religion
Book#: DMMT028
TroublemakerThe third volume in the award-winning, groundbreaking Dave Brandstetter mystery series finds Dave investigating the murder of the owner of a local gay bar. Appearances suggest that the only witness is also the killer, but he swears he's innocent. Trouble is, he may be telling the truth.
Joseph Hansen
1986
Fiction, Gay, Mystery
Book#: DMMT029
Robbers WineThe 7th adventure featuring amateur sleuth Jane Lawless. When Jane and her witty sidekick, Cordelia, visit their friend Anne Dumont in Minnesota, a bizzare series of events culminates in a mysterious death. Once again, Jane and Cordelia are plunged into case which they are determined to solve.
Ellen Hart
1997
Fiction, Mystery
Book#: DMMT030
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Outhouse East Library7 / 14
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The Boy Who Followed RipleyIn this quietly terrifying exploration of trust and friendship, a troubled young runaway arrives in Villeperce. And when, on the boy's behalf, Tom Ripley is drawn from his lovely estate in the French countryside to Berlin's seamy underworld and into a kidnapping plot that requires the most bizarre methods--and sinister acumen--for intervention, the icily amoral Ripley is transformed into a generous and compassionate projector.
Patricia Highsmith
2001
Fiction, Mystery
Book#: DMMT031
Ripley Under GroundRipley had kept his name and reputation clean, amazingly clean, considering. It would be most embarrassing for him if his interest in the Buckmaster Gallery were made public. The gallery is staging another Derwatt exhibition. But now an American collector claims that the expensive masterpiece he bought three years ago is a fake, it is of course. And he wants to talk to Derwatt. But he inconveniently is dead. Ripley needs the perfect solution. But not everyone's nerves are as steady as his. Especially if it comes to murder...
Patricia Highsmith
1999
Fiction, Mystery
Book#: DMMT032
Strangers on a TrainThe psychologists would call it folie a deux...'Bruno slammed his palms together.' "Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?" From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines is trapped in a nightmare of shared guilt and an insidious merging of personalities.
Patricia Highsmith
1999
Fiction, Mystery, Psychology
Book#: DMMT033
Portrait in Murder and Gay ColorsSheldon Lyman is a methodical, hard-working New York cop, 20 years a detective, widowed a year ago, and now almost up for retirement. The murder of Larry Apperson was all in the day's work... until he saw the nude portrait of the young, gay hustler. At first Lyman is intrigued, but he soon becomes mesmerized by Larry's life - and lifestyle. He meets the men who knew him, paid him, and loved him, and he is slowly drawn into a whirlwind of emotion he has never before experienced. This is a murder with layer upon layer of mystery and shock after shock of discovery.
H. Paul Jeffers
1985
Fiction, Gay, Mystery
Book#: DMMT034
Music from Another RoomHis career at a standstill, Axel Grenner came to the Hacienda de las Golondrinas in response to an old friend's curiously urgent invitation. Among other guests gathered at the fiesta he encountered faces from his past, a former lover, and a series of interlocking conspiracies that threatened to explode into devastating violence.
To save his friends from the forces that menaced them, Grenner plunged into a Mexian maelstrom of love, lust, fear, corruption - and ultimately, murder!
James Kelly
1980
Fiction, Mystery
Book#: DMMT035
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Outhouse East Library8 / 14
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Dirty WorkLesbian amateur sleuth accepts the advice of queer and straight housemates and the comfort of a police sergeant as she seeks the killer in a hostel for the homeless. This mystery is funny, scary and also sexy.
Vivien Kelly
1995
Fiction, Lesbian, Mystery
Book#: DMMT036
SteamSan Francisco was once a city of music and laughter, of parties and bath-houses, when days held promise and nights, romance. But now something sinister haunts the streets and alleyways, something that crept in with the fog to seek cruel vengeance.
Jay B. Laws
1991
Fiction, Gay, Mystery, Romance
Book#: DMMT037
The Back PassageAgatha Christie, move over! Hard-core sex and scandal meet in this brilliantly funny whodunit. A seaside village, an English country house, a family of wealthy eccentrics and their equally peculiar servants, a determined detective ― all the ingredients are here for a cozy Agatha Christie-style whodunit. But wait ― Edward “Mitch” Mitchell is no Hercule Poirot, and The Back Passage is no Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Mitch is a handsome, insatiable 22-year-old hunk who never lets a clue stand in the way of a steamy encounter, whether it’s with the local constabulary, the house secretary, or his school chum and fellow athlete Boy Morgan, who becomes his Watson when they’re not busy boffing each other. When Reg Walworth is found dead in a cabinet, Sir James Eagle has his servant Weeks immediately arrested as the killer. But Mitch’s observant eye pegs more plausible possibilities: polysexual chauffeur Hibbert, queenly pervert Leonard Eagle, missing scion Rex, sadistic copper Kennington, even Si...
James Lear
2006
Erotica, Fiction, Gay, Humour/Comedy, Polyamorous
Book#: DMMT038
Tempting FatePrecocious, brilliant, sophisticated and disturbing, Nicholas Gonville is a sixteen-year-old public schoolboy who appears to be cool and amused enough to cope with any experience. Desired by all who meet him, he leads a charmed life, lightly eluding the embraces of his over-fond schoolmaster and observing the antics of his elders with merciless wit.
But when his godfather dies in mysterious circumstances Nicholas is forced to abandon his role of detached spectator: he is pitched into a threatening world of police investigations, and the murderer seems to be about to strike again...
Michael Levey
1983
Fiction, Mystery
Book#: DMMT039
Baby, It's ColdA bitter Winter grips New York City, as private investigator Robin Miller is plunged into a quest to save a friend's child from horrifying death. A vicious kidnapper is on the loose, one child is already presumed dead, and Robin has no time to lose. The investigation has to be conducted at breakneck speed, propelling her on a collision course with a cold-hearted killer - and a former lover.
Jaye Maiman
1997
Fiction, Lesbian, Mystery
Book#: DMMT040
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Outhouse East Library9 / 14
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The Wrong PeopleTangier in the 1960s where an uptight Brit unzips his emotions. Is it love or lust ? And can he escape from debauched countrymen who desire the object of his affection?
Robin Maugham
1973
Fiction, Gay, Thriller
Book#: DMMT041
The House That Jack BuiltRalph Parrish is a middle-aged, hard-working Indiana farmer who visits his gay brother in Florida, even though he does not approve of his brother's lifestyle. From the moment he arrives, Ralph and his brother argue heatedly--until the next morning when his brother is found dead . . . and Ralph becomes suspect number one!
Ed McBain
1990
Fiction, Gay, Mystery
Book#: DMMT042
Report for MurderThe first novel in the Lindsay Gordon series - a gripping and thrilling page-turner, starring a self-proclaimed 'cynical socialist lesbian feminist journalist' - from the number one bestseller Val McDermid. Freelance journalist Lindsay Gordon is strapped for cash. Why else would she agree to cover a fund-raising gala at a girls' public school? But when the star attraction is found garrotted with her own cello string minutes before she is due on stage, Lindsay finds herself investigating a vicious murder. Who would have wanted Lorna Smith Cooper dead? Who had the key to the locked room in which her body was found? And who could have slipped out of the hall at just the right time to commit this calculated and cold-blooded crime?
V. L. McDermid
2004
Feminism, Fiction, Lesbian, Mystery
Book#: DMMT043
Blood LinkThe 15th Carol Ashton mystery from the best-selling Australian writer Claire McNab. In this instalment our top Australian cop tracks a brazen killer.
A series of random deaths suddenly fall into a pattern when reclusive, eccentric billionaire Thurmond Rule dies, leaving an immense estate, but no valid will. With no close relatives - Rule's son and only heir vanished mysteriously years before - the search begins to find more distant kin who may have a claim to the estate.
There would be several more applicants vying for the money, bit for the disturbing fact that many of them have recently been killed. Detective Inspector Carol Ashton speculates that one among the remaining would-be heirs could be responsible for thinning the field so drastically but is baffled that a killer would draw such obvious attention to themselves. As the authorities contemplate protecting anyone with a blood link to Thurmond Rule, Carol fears she may be unwittingly shielding a killer and playing into a deadly...
Claire McNab
2003
Fiction, Lesbian, Mystery
Book#: DMMT044
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Outhouse East Library10 / 14
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Double BluffThe seventh installment in Claire McNab's highly-rated, Lambda Literary Award-nominated mystery series.
Someone is stalking television star Madeline Shipley and her life is in danger. But is Madeline really the prey of a psychotic fan, or is it just a smokescreen to divert attention from the real target - Detective Inspector Carol Ashton?
Carol is investigating the apparent suicide of the wife of charismatic businessman Haydan Delray, and powerful interests want the high-profile case closed... for good. Are the escalating threats intended to pressure the detective to drop the investigation, or is it her relationship with Madeline that makes Carol the focal point for violence?
As Carol becomes embroiled in her most challenging case ever, the danger widens to include her immediate family.
Claire McNab
1995
Fiction, Lesbian, Mystery
Book#: DMMT045
Fall GuyFor most people, to know Milton Ryce is to loathe him. Now in his mid-forties, the practical joker has never outgrown the adolescent behavior that amused him so much as a teenager. Embarrassing others has been his favorite past time, and he delights in coming up with elaborate schemes for setting up his 'friends' as fall guys. Extremely generous with his money, Milton has bought influence in high places and a circle of well-connected friends and business acquaintances. When he plunges to his death while sky diving, no one seems particularly surprised to find that he was murdered. Detective Inspector Carol Ashton finds a long list of possible murderers--a list that includes family members who are positively jostling for position to be at the top of the list. Then an elaborate practical joke is played out at Milton's funeral by his son, Ted, and more evidence begins piling up against him. Carol must act quickly to find out if Ted is indeed his father's killer--or if he is simply being se...
Claire McNab
2004
Fiction, Lesbian, Mystery
Book#: DMMT046
Love You To DeathValentine's Day is fast approaching and everyone has a sweetheart, except Stan Kraychik, Boston's sassiest hairdresser. Ever hopeful of meeting Mr. Right, Stan attends a gala reception that culminates in a death by poisoning, and romantic problems take a back seat to murder.
The Boston police arrest Stan's friend Laurett Cole, who then leaves her four-year-old son in Stan's care. In his quest to free Laurett from suspicion and himself from his ill-mannered ward, Stan finds himself exploring the secrets of a revered Boston institution, the Gladys Gardner Chocolate Company. There, along with the sweet edibles, he finds an assortment of not-so-delectable murder.
Grant Michaels
1992
Fiction, Gay, Mystery
Book#: DMMT047
Jumping the CracksNearly midnight in London's derelict Hackney on a wet, windy, dark night, but not so dark that Rats (after her rats' tail hair) doesn't see the Rolls with the body slumped inside. No phone boxes work, no one else on the street: so she clutches her hideous secret and makes for home.
In the days and months that follow, Rats experiences the city with increasing menace - as though existing on the margins, a lesbian, "unlucky in love", unemployed, a northerner, living alone at the mercy of unscrupulous landlords weren't bad enough. And her job, when she finally lands one, is more evidence of a city in decay - a seedy accommodation agency, teetering on the edge of legality. In her waking and dreaming hours, fraud, corruption and the murder glide ever nearer, as silent and threatening as the hovering Rolls, but she fights them all. Even the return of her lover, Helen, doesn't divert her from her obsessive attempts to track down the killer. Politics and crime, love and loneliness, the search ...
Rebecca O'Rourke
1987
Fiction, Lesbian, Mystery
Book#: DMMT048
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Outhouse East Library11 / 14
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The BeatFriday night in a city park and a young man is found battered to death in a public toilet. The motive appears obvious: the place is a well-known gay haunt and a common target for local thugs. But this is not a simple case. . . This intricate and accomplished novel introduces the work of Australian writer Simon Payne.
Simon Payne
1985
Fiction, Gay, Mystery
Book#: DMMT049
Sunday's ChildDisposing of a corpse is no easy task--particularly on New Year's Eve, and particularly for upstanding lawyer Geoffry Chadwick. For Chadwick brought home the wrong kind of stranger and, while defending himself, dispatched his visitor too well.
Edward Phillips
1981
Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
Book#: DMMT050
Death by the RiversideAmong the moss-covered trees and wrought-iron balustrades of southern Louisiana, Detective Michele Knight (Micky to her friends) takes on the seemingly simple job of shooting a few photos for a client, but the going gets rough as Micky finds herself slugging through thugs and slogging through swamps in an attempt to expose a dangerous drug ring. The trail leads to the Hundred Oaks Plantation, a transvestite named Eddie, a beautiful doctor named Cordelia, and memories Micky thought she had buried twenty years ago.
Hard-hitting prose in the style of Sam Spade and Mike Hammer with a lesbian twist.
The First Micky Knight Mystery
J. M. Redmann
1990
Fiction, Lesbian, Mystery, Transgender
Book#: DMMT051
Deaths of JocastaIn this long-awaited reprint, Micky Knight had a pleasant evening to look forward to; she was running security at a party of beautiful lesbians and gay men. But a dead body ruins the affair. When more dead women are found, the police target Dr. Cordelia James as the killer - the same Cordelia who broke Micky's heart. As Micky works to expose the killer she tries to keep her heart hidden.
J. M. Redmann
1992
Fiction, Gay, Lesbian, Mystery
Book#: DMMT052
Devil Boy: A Story of Unholy Genius"It's dangerous to cross me, Mr Meldrum. Strange things happen to men I don't like. And I don't like you..."
A childish threat?
Maybe. But just look at Mr Meldrum now - splattered all over the stone floor, his arms and legs thrown wide, spreadeagled in his own blood.
Willo Roberts
1971
Fiction, Mystery
Book#: DMMT053
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Outhouse East Library12 / 14
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Body BlowsBisexual actor/hustler Cal Lynch moved to San Francisco to get away from a bad affair in New York, and to vanquish memories of growing up in Oklahoma and of studying architecture at Yale. Things aren't much better now, though; he has a few acting jobs, but most of his time is spent selling his body or working out. When he kills a male client in self-defense, Cal runs away again, first to his hometown, where he encounters old friends and his brother, and then to L.A., where he becomes tentatively involved with a woman. A private eye he has assumed is trailing him for the murder turns out to have been sent by a worried ex-lover, and Cal returns home to the Bay, learning that running away from murder is not unlike running away from life.
Steven Simmons
1987
Bisexual, Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Sex
Book#: DMMT054
CrosswordsLondon in January is rather bland, and Victoria Cross is glad to escape with the help of an apparent routine order of boredom. She is to find a man who disappeared twenty-five years ago and had a Chinese vase, which was particularly valuable. On her quest, she plunges deep into London in the 1960s, when the boundaries between the underworld and the fine society were still fluid. But before she can ask the right questions, her client, a nightclub owner, is murdered, and her life is also in danger.
For Victoria, London becomes a very hot pavement in January.
Penny Sumner
1995
Fiction, Lesbian, Mystery
Book#: DMMT055
The End of AprilVictoria Cross travels to England, where she tries to ensure the safety of April Tate, a young lesbian activist who has received a series of increasingly threatening letters.
Penny Sumner
1993
Fiction, Lesbian, Mystery
Book#: DMMT056
It's All Smoke & MirrorsWhen Shawn Donnelly gets into trouble, she does it well. Shawn Donnelly can't even go on a little weekend getaway with her old college chums without running into a corpse or two - and don't even ask about her new co-worker who seems to have an entirely unnatural interest in the serial killer recently running rampant in the Detroit metro area. It's no wonder why Shawn decides to take up a nice, safe hobby like theatre.
No matter what Shawn does - from falling in love with a woman who might be a murderer, to breaking into a co-worker's home in search of dead bodies - she does it with her own flair.
Therese Szymanski
2007
Fiction, Lesbian, Mystery
Book#: DMMT057
The Five Gates of HellMoon Beach is where you go to die, a place where the dead are displayed under marquees and even the sea is dotted with gravestones. Once a year the city observes the Day of the Dead, when celebrants eat marzipan skulls and paint themselves blue to match the corpses on the ocean floor. In Moon Beach, Nathan Christie is an anomaly: he saves people from drowning. In Moon Beach, Jed Morgan is in his element, following a career that takes him from blackmail to commissioned murder. And Moon Beach is where these two young men become the fascinated servants of Neville Creed, an omnipotent entrepreneur of death, whose private passions are intimately entwined with his vocation.
Rupert Thomson
1998
Fiction, Gay, Mystery, Romance
Book#: DMMT058
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No Night Is Too LongSet in Alaska and Suffolk, this story involves a brother (Ivo) and sister (Isabel), each of whom has a sexual relationship with Tim. When Ivo is left for dead on an Arctic island, the way seems clear for Tim and Isabel. But nothing plays itself out in the way one might expect.
Barbara Vine
1995
Bisexual, Fiction, Gay, Mystery
Book#: DMMT059
CruisingA psychopath on the summer-hot streets of New York murdering homosexuals. A rookie cop cruising the gay bars as a decoy. Someone's gonna get busted; someone's gonna get skinned...
Gerald Walker
1972
Fiction, Gay, Mystery
Book#: DMMT060
The ChoirboysPartners in the Los Angeles Police Department, they’re haunted by terrifying dark secrets of the nightwatch–shared predawn drink and sex sessions they call choir practice. Each wears his cynicism like a bulletproof jockstrap–each has his horror story, his bad dream, his night shriek. He is afraid of his friends–he is afraid of himself.
Joseph Wambaugh
1977
Fiction, Gay, Mystery, Sex
Book#: DMMT061
The Girl on the StairsJane and Petra have been together for six years and after deciding to have a child, they move to Petra's hometown, Berlin. But things do not quite go according to plan. Jane, at six months pregnant, finds herself increasingly isolated and preoccupied with the monuments and reminders of the Holocaust which echo around the city - imagining the horrors that happened in the spaces around her. She becomes uneasy in the apartment and conceives a dread of the derelict backhouse across the courtyard. She also begins to suspect their neighbour, Alban Mann, of sexually assaulting his daughter, and places a phone call to the police which holds more significance than she can ever have known ...
Louise Welsh
2013
Family, Fiction, History, Lesbian, Mystery
Book#: DMMT062
Sisters of the RoadPam Nilsen is looking for teenage prostitute Trish Margolin and the murderer of Trish's best friend. Her search brings her into contact with the world of teenage prostitutes and runaways on the streets of Seattle and Portland.
Barbara Wilson
1987
Fiction, Lesbian, Mystery
Book#: DMMT063
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Outhouse East Library14 / 14
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Divine VictimThe narrator's lesbian lover, Marya, inherits a large, eerie Montana home, and the two women find a house full of unsolved mysteries. By the author of She Came Too Late.
Mary Wings
1993
Fiction, Lesbian, Mystery
Book#: DMMT064
She Came in a FlashEmma Victor, the witty, intrepid heroine of the acclaimed She Came Too Late, is hot on the trail of Lana Flax, her best friend's kid sister, a onetime physics prodigy turned member of the yellow-clad cult of the Vishnu Divine Inspiration Center. When Lana finally turns up-dead - Emma begins to wonder if cult members turn on with something stronger than yogurt and higher consciousness. Mary Wings was born in Chicago and now lives in San Francisco. She is the author of four other Emma Victor Mysteries: She Came Too Late, She Came by the Book, She Came to the Castro, and She Came in Drag. She is also the author of Divine Victim.
Mary Wings
1988
Fiction, Lesbian, Mystery, Religion, Thriller
Book#: DMMT065
She Came Too LateEmma Victor is smart, funny, and lesbian. She tracks down a killer while unearthing secrets about high-society Bostonians and a financially failing women's clinic.
Mary Wings
1986
Fiction, Lesbian, Mystery
Book#: DMMT066
Good Bad WomanFrankie Richmond knows trouble. A London barrister whose career is teetering on the brink of ruin and whose search for the right woman is about as successful as the quest for a perfect pair of jeans, "Trouble" could be Frankie's middle name. But when she agrees to a routine appearance at a magistrate's court as a favor for a friend and former lover, she never expects the kind of trouble that finds her accused of murder. Or the kind of trouble that wears a sexy red sheath and croons the torch songs Frankie can't resist. What to do first? Figure out who may have framed her for a murder she didn't commit, or lose herself in the smoky voice--and silky arms--of the lounge singer as mysterious as Frankie's predicament? Solving the case herself is a challenge Frankie is willing to tackle head-on, especially since the police are only too happy to pin the crime on a working-class lesbian barrister. But each time Frankie gets close to clearing her name, she gets even closer to some unpleasant tr...
Elizabeth Woodcraft
2000
Fiction, Lesbian, Mystery
Book#: DMMT067
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