#gay detective novel

[simonaniles]

A VEGAS MURDER-MYSTERY GAY ROMANCE. Benjamin Rooney and his new partner Isabelle Danvers have a hard-ass captain, a dead body, and too many suspects to count. Making things more complicated is the fact that Jake Gordon - professional male stripper, the deceased's young widower and one of the prime suspects in the case - seems determined to seduce him. Now Rooney must navigate the seedy underbelly of Las Vegas to find the actual killer before he gets away with the perfect crime, the loot - and frames Rooney's problematic new flame in the process.

"Shoot for the Heart" is 30,000K of steamy comedy-of-errors murder mystery, erotic romance, backstabbing villains, well-endowed strippers, and hitting the jackpot with your happily ever after.

[desperateneedforviagra]

Babe, you’re not eating your limited edition a study in scarlett book???!??!

[uwmspeccoll]

Steamy Saturday

An obviously gay but crafty detective, Francis Morely; suggestive banter between Morely and his straight, ex-football player sidekick, Tiger Olsen; a camera behind a two-way mirror in a notorious bathhouse run by the sinister Joe Cannelli; blackmail and murder of privileged high society members; and the blond, sultry "nymphomaniac on the make," Vivien Holden -- this pulp novel, The Gay Detective, published in 1961 by Saber Books in Fresno, California, is all kinds of steamy!

The suggestive cover art bears the caption, “Francis and Tiger found out what they needed to know. The Trick now was to get the nude Vivien out of the bathhouse and to safety.” The excerpt on the flyleaf has Francis "mincing a bit towards his new car . . . 'Oh, I can see that you're going to be a big help to me. . . . So, there you great hulk. Now get moving.' Glancing around to be sure they were unobserved, Tiger put a hand on his hip and flipped his other wrist. 'And whoops to you, too,' he said with his boyish grin." And the quote on the back cover makes a reverse implication of St. Paul's statement, "there is nothing unclean of itself; but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.”

Quite tame by today's standards, The Gay Detective, considered the first published gay American murder mystery novel, was written by Lou Rand, a pseudonym for Lou Hogan (born Louis Randall, 1910-1976), a professional chef, columnist for Gourmet magazine, and author of The Gay Cookbook (1965). Saber Books was one of several imprints owned by Fresno author and publisher Sanford Aday, a notorious purveyor of steamy pulp fiction, who was eventually tried and convicted of distributing obscene material.

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[itwoodbeprefect]

in (re)reading the original sherlock holmes stories it's hard not to appreciate how genuinely sweet holmes and watson's relationship is, even harder to avoid noticing how many times watson describes what they have as an "intimate acquaintance" or "two men who know each other intimately" and the VERY hardest not to have my brain bombard me with every single suggestive meme or emoji i've ever seen when another passage like that pops up.

... and they were roommates-

[merrychamomile]

Drawings on the project of popularization of mass literature. You are introduced to the characters from the detective Jo Nesbø "Bat" - Toowoomba and Otto.

[consolecadet]

I wish talking about Latent Defects to strangers didn't make me feel so silly and embarrassed

[pretensesoup]

Queer books, day 22/30

Okay, I wrote this all and then Tumblr ate it, so here we go again. LOL help.

Here we have Oliver Rivington, former army captain lately invalided home. He comes to see Jack Turner when he discovers his sister, Lady Montbray, has paid him 200 GBP. (This is like FOURTEEN THOUSAND POUNDS in today's money, so he is probably right to be concerned, actually.) Jack is a former scallywag turned private eye who tells Oliver to fuck off. While they're bickering, another client arrives--a woman with some missing letters--and Oliver starts in on the "exactly what kind of operation are you running here?"

Fortunately(?), Oliver has literally nothing better to do than to harass Jack and try to dig up dirt on him. This leads to shouting. Angry, stressed makeouts in an alley after an attempted mugging. A road trip that is full of intense longing and the two of them teasing each other sexually. Being detectives together as a love language! It's amazing, honestly. All written with Cat Sebastian's characteristic wit and "eat the rich" attitude, with a defense of women and the power men hold over them on the side. Lovely.

Key quote:

The lady obviously spent her days reading, napping, and eating biscuits. He didn’t know whether to be disgusted or jealous.

To be honest, this one has a bit of a rough landing. It's one romance novel where it felt like despite being in love, Jack and Oliver should maybe not have ended up together. They're well suited, but the class thing is SO MUCH of a thing that it starts to feel weird that they find a way around it. BUT. In the end, I love it too much to really criticize it for wanting to make me happy. 10/10, go read it.

Warnings for graphic sex and some period-typical homophobia, violence, and allusions to violence against women and women being subjugated to their husbands because it's 1817 and, you know, fuck everything. But Lady Montbray eventually gets a nice girlfriend, so it all works out in the end.

[frankierotwinkdeath]

It is so shocking to me that there hasn’t been a big traditionally published novel that was originally johnlock fanfiction. You don’t even have to file off the serial numbers Sherlock Holmes is fully in the public domain!

[235uranium]

for a character to be "of all time" they need to have smth that distinguishes them from the usual archetype they fulfill in an insane as fuck way. they need to leave you reeling with their every life choice. and those choices are always in character which increases the degree of insanity.

[trappedincabinetsfic]

What I think is the funniest part of MSR vs Wangxian is that the cross over btw the two stories is so massive, that I truly think each fandom would love the other material wholeheartedly.

[hatterpillar-author]

"He shouldn’t be so sceptical over somebody who was absolutely none of his business, but he was an itch. He was an itch that had yet to be scratched.  Fifteen minutes passed. Thirty.  An hour. Nothing."

[quinnfabrayapologist]

Got blocked by JK Rowling on twitter because I asked if she was tired of bullying gay people yet and I wish I was joking

[retired-ceo]

just realized i should do a books i read in 2022 list... so here

[vlunaart]

Confessions of a Drunk Detective

My novel (WIP) revolves around a jaded journalist and a drunk detective. The detective, Derek Bungler, hired James Anderson to tell the true story of his past. Anderson doesn’t like Bungler all that much, but how could he turn down the perfect opportunity to expose the detective’s fatal flaws?

[libraryleopard]

Adult standalone urban fantasy novel

In an alternate version of present-day Vancouver inhabited by the reincarnated Knights of the Round Table and other figures from myth and folklore, a college student from an Arthurian family and a valkyrie both become entangled in a murder investigation

Gay autistic main character with anxiety; bi ace main character; M/M + F/F romances; Chinese Canadian trans girl side character

[monstrosibee]

everyones like haha blanc from glass onion and knives out is such a weird little man ive never met one quite like him and listen. if u read any detective story from before the weird edgy sherlock era, you will find most solo detectives are weird little guys! i can name a lot of weird little guy detectives!