The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse - Softcover

Mabel Maney

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573441651 ISBN 13: 9781573441650

Publisher: Cleis Pr, 2002

Synopsis

When nurse Cherry Aimless lands in San Francisco in search of Nancy Clue and a flock of missing nuns, the earnest white-girl 1950s meet the oh-so-queer 1990s in a parody of both girl detective novels and lesbian romantic fiction. This latest edition has a new introduction by the author.

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About the Author:

Mabel Maney is the author of three books in the Nancy clue series, including The Case of the Good-for-Nothing Girlfriend and A Ghost in the Closet. More recently, she is the author of the new Jane Bond series from HarperCollins, including Kiss the Girls and Make Them Spy.

From Booklist:

In this artful, hilarious send-up of girls' fiction of the past, innocent, naive recent nursing school graduate Cherry Aimless is drawn into pursuing a "case" when a beautiful patient in her psych ward mysteriously disappears after a visit by a nun. Cherry seeks the aid of forthright, courageous Nancy Clue, whose attorney-father has lately been done in by his housekeeper of 30 years. What is the clue in the book the missing patient gave Cherry? What happened to the conventful of nuns, presumed kidnapped, from which the visiting sister came? Where is Aunt Gertrude? Will our heroines escape the midnight prowler? the ticking time-bomb? And then there's the murder: will goody-good Cherry and her chums triumph? You bet, but along the way guileless Cherry has many peculiar things happen to her, all made shriekingly funny by her inability to distinguish drag queens and dykes from ordinary mortals. Many a fan of the (Cherry) Ames and (Nancy) Drew series will be delighted by this wonderfully wry parody--and rewarded by a not-bad mystery, too. Marie Kuda

About this edition

• Publisher: Cleis Pr
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1573441651
• ISBN 13: 9781573441650
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 160