She Came In Drag by Mary Wings

She Came In Drag

Mary Wings

Emma Victor is back! And in deep trouble in this tale of mischief, murder and mayhem set against the backdrop of Halloween in San Francisco. Playing bodyguard to Dr. Rita Huelga – who has just outed her high school sweetheart, rock superstar Audra Leon, on a national trash TV talk show – Emma gets more that she bargained for as she deals with death threats, murder and the Lesbian Revengers in this superbly atmospheric novel that has more twists than Lombard Street. It’s no trick – this is a treat not to be missed, from best seller Mary Wings.

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ISBN 425169359
Genre Mystery
Publication Date 01-Jun-99
Publisher Berkley
Format Paperback
No. of Pages 337
Series Emma Victor Mystery
# in Series 5
Notes From Publishers Weekly

‘Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble, we’ll turn the patriarchy into rubble.’ So chants PI Emma Victor, caught in a militant Lesbian Revengers demonstration on Halloween night in San Francisco. Emma is flying high after unknowingly ingesting a hallucinogenic mushroomAnot the best state to be in while protecting research scientist Dr. Rita Huelga, whose life is in danger after outing her ex-girlfriend, the rock diva Audra L?on, on a TV talk show. The PI can’t help wondering what would motivate the fiercely private mycologist to reveal her deepest secret, and her suspicions of Huelga are heightened when L?on’s girlfriend dies after dining on pasta and poisonous mushrooms. Lambda Award-winning Wings is superb in conjuring up the atmosphere of the city’s lesbian scene as well as the creepy goings-on of the holiday; there are skeletons both in and out of closets, plot twists galore and more than one corpse interfering with Emma’s trick-or-treating. Mystery fans not put off by a PI who isn’t above using a one-night stand to get information will be so engaged by Wings’s evocative prose and vivid details that they will be forgiving if all the loose threads aren’t tied up neatly in the end.

Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

It’s Halloween in San Francisco . . . Be very afraid.

Halloween is creeping up on San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood, setting the perfect stage for mischief, mayhem–and murder. Emma Victor is hired to protect a rock diva who’s been outted…in a parade of drag queen lookalikes!

‘Emma snoops around a far dicier metropolis than Tony Bennett celebrated, one teeming with self-styled biker dykes and histrionic drama queens.’–People

‘Wonderful writing.’–Sandra Scoppettone

‘Wings has a saucy, witty way with dialogue and description.’–Elle

Language English
Rating NotRated
BookID 11668

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