Someone Killed His Boyfriend: A Summer of Sex, Sun and Murder in Provincetown - Hardcover

Stukas, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0758200382 ISBN 13: 9780758200389

Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp, 2001

Synopsis

When Michael Starks's groom-to-be vanishes with his Matisse painting and then is found murdered, all evidence points to a psychotic Bette Davis impersonator, and Michael and his assistant Robert, an underpaid copywriter for feminine hygiene products, and their strapping lesbian friend Monet must go undercover in a drag revue to trap a killer, in a delightfully riotous mystery.

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Review

It would be hard to imagine a giddier good time than this campy first novel set in the gay meccas of New York and Provincetown, Massachusetts. When Robert, a single "good guy," hears that his wealthy, gorgeous, and sexually voracious friend Michael has finally met the man of his dreams, he can't believe it's true. Michael, after all, is a man whose bathroom towels read "His" and "Next." Despite his doubts and envy, Robert promises to help his friend plan the most sparkling, expensive wedding that Manhattan queerdom has ever seen. Fifteen hundred guests arrive in everything from Armani to complete drag. When it's Max, the chosen one, who leaves Michael at the altar, all hell breaks loose in the quiet world of Robert and his friends. And when Max is later found dead, the suspects seem all too obvious. A very funny mystery, full of pointless and amusing gags, Someone Killed His Boyfriend may be the perfect weekend read, like having a group of loud, clever friends that you can put away on the shelf when they get under your skin. --Regina Marler

From Booklist

Wealthy, handsome, butch Michael; his plainer, poorer, rather nelly friend, Robert, an underpaid copywriter for feminine hygiene products; and Robert's friend, the towering lesbian Monette, are a trio of detectives in this campy sleuther. Michael, a slut to the manner born, gives his all to marry breathtakingly gorgeous Max, a southerner with money. When the wedding day arrives, however, Michael is stood up at the altar, humiliated in front of 1,500 close friends, and minus an original Matisse. With Robert in tow, Michael tracks Max to that summertime gay mecca, Provincetown, only to find him dead. Since Michael is the prime suspect and clues indicate the murderer is a Bette Davis impersonator, Michael and Robert take lessons from drag legend Beyonda Sea and land jobs in a drag revue to pursue the fiend. Sure, the plot is outlandish, and the sleuths are improbable. But this breezy page-turner is laugh-out-loud entertainment. Irresistible. Whitney Scott
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About this edition

• Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0758200382
• ISBN 13: 9780758200389
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 249