A Queer Kind of Love: A Pharoah Love Mystery - Hardcover

Baxt, George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1883402018 ISBN 13: 9781883402013

Publisher: Otto Penzler Books, 1994

Synopsis

Pharoah Love, New York's extroverted, gay black detective, returns to duty, only to find himself again in trouble as he investigates a series of killings aimed at members of the Capesi crime family. By the author of A Queer Kind of Death.

About this title

About the Author:

George Baxt is the author of The Clark Gable and Carole Lombard Murder Case.

From Kirkus Reviews:

Baxt, who's kept busy in recent years with his Hollywood historicals (The Mae West Murder Case, 1993, etc.), now offers a blast from the past: the first case for gay, black, hip-hop cop Pharoah Love since Topsy and Evil (1968). Somebody's been icing the soldiers of Pharoah's old friend Marco Salino--one of the Three Musketeers from Pharoah's childhood days--and since Pharoah, the second Musketeer, has just shot the third, Herbie Marks, he feels a special responsibility to clear up the case. Pharoah's scenes with a revolving revue of zanies, from Pharoah's favorite madam, Rita Genari, to her prize whore, Gino Vinelli, to pneumatic nightclub singer Natalya Orloff--you can hardly call their conversations detective work--suggests that the executions are somebody's idea of revenge for the rape/beating/murder of the Cicci twins, na‹fs who performed at Marco's Capri Hotel up in the Catskills and then gave an encore for the soldiers. But whose idea? Demotic and flamboyant as ever, though Jerome Charyn long ago eclipsed Baxt in the department of sheer, surrealistic weirdness. Compared to the Isaac Sidel saga, Pharoah's latest nostalgic turn seems positively sedate. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Otto Penzler Books
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1883402018
• ISBN 13: 9781883402013
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 279