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

Maney, Mabel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0939416751 ISBN 13: 9780939416752

Publisher: Cleis Pr, 1993

Synopsis

A parody of girls' mystery fiction presents Cherry Aimless and Nancy Clue attempting to solve the mystery of a missing psychiatric patient and a missing conventful of nuns, presumed kidnapped

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About the Author

Mabel Maney is the author of the three books in the Nancy Clue series: The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse, The Case of the Good-for-Nothing Girlfriend, and A Ghost in the Closet (all available from Turnaround). She is also the author of two parodles featuring Jane Bond (James's lesbian twin sister): Kiss the Girls and Make Them Spy and The Girl with the Golden Bouffant. She lives in San Francisco.

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: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0939416751
• ISBN 13: 9780939416752
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 184