She Came to the Castro (Emma Victor Mystery) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 070434520X ISBN 13: 9780704345201

Publisher: GARDNERS VI BOOKS AMS006, 1997

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From Kirkus Reviews:

Two new jobs are competing for Emma Victor's attention. Her boss, criminal attorney Willie Rossini, wants her to drop off the first blackmail payment of $35,000 for a videotape that shows independent mayoral candidate Margo Villanueva gloriously in flagrante. And Kimilar Jones, in town for the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Film Festival premiere of her ex-con brother's documentary Pale Refugee, wants Emma to hunt down her shiftless ex (ex-boyfriend? ex-husband? she's not exactly clear) and get him to sign a quitclaim to the goat farm she's convinced is about to become exceedingly valuable. By the next time Emma sees Kim, quite a bit has changed: Kim's celebrating her newfound love of women and telling Emma she doesn't need to worry about why the ex was being impersonated by somebody; in fact, she doesn't need to find him after all. By that time, though, the other case has taken a much nastier turn: The blackmailer is dead, the video is gone, and an accomplice, evidently convinced that Emma fired the fatal shot, has nipped her latest romance in the bud by putting her roommate on ice. The two jobs come together with a satisfying (though predictable) snap. What's really noteworthy about Emma's fourth case (She Came by the Book, 1996, etc.), though, is her tough professionalism on the job, and Wings's success in tying high- level social debates about gay rights into the mystery, right down to the blissful final surprise. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From Booklist:

In the latest Emma Victor mystery, the popular series star's baggage includes a recent romantic split-up, a newly acquired license to carry a concealed weapon, tickets to the gay and lesbian film festival at San Francisco's historic Castro Theater, and the nasty job of go-between for a gay-friendly mayoral candidate who is being blackmailed with a videotape of a passionate indiscretion in a hotel room. Wings keeps the action hopping with a gathering of interesting suspects, including Jason Jeeters Jones, a hulking, trailer-trash, ex-con queer (whose film becomes the hot ticket, in more ways than one, of the film fest); Jones' sister Kilimar; a middle-aged lesbian virgin; an unknown corpse with half his jaw blown off; and others. Eventually, the plot expands to encompass an international scheme to end democracy, which is perhaps a bit much for what could have been a simpler, less confusing, and more entertaining mystery. Whitney Scott

About this edition

• Publisher: GARDNERS VI BOOKS AMS006
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 070434520X
• ISBN 13: 9780704345201
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224