About this series
A gay bar’s business is getting killed—along with its clientele—in the final novel of this beloved mystery series set in early-eighties Boston.
Daniel Valentine is Boston’s most fabulous gay bartender. Clarisse Lovelace is his straight—yet glorious—pal and business partner. Together they run Lovelace’s bar. And also, when necessary, solve the occasional murder.
Lovelace’s bar, once the darling of Boston’s gay brigade, is losing money like crazy—mostly because someone keeps leaving dead bodies around. The cops are, unsurprisingly, not interested in the gay community’s problems. Good thing Valentine and Lovelace know a thing or two about catching killers.
Titles in the series (4)
- Vermilion
Two misfit sleuths search for a street hustler’s killer in this mystery series debut first published in 1980 and set in Boston’s gay scene. Daniel Valentine is a gay bartender and former social worker. Clarisse Lovelace is his straight pal who works in real estate. They make an unconventional investigative duo—but sometimes unconventional is exactly what’s called for. When Billy Golacinsky, a teenage street hustler, is found dead on the lawn of a homophobic lawmaker, everyone wants the case swept under the rug. Everyone except Valentine and Lovelace. Now they’re combing through Boston’s gay scene—from bars to bath houses—in a time before AIDS, yet full of other dangers.
- Cobalt
In this 1982 gay murder mystery by the author of Vermilion, summer in Provincetown is a nonstop party—until it stops dead. Daniel Valentine is a gay bartender and former social worker. Clarisse Lovelace is his straight pal who works in real estate. They make an unconventional investigative duo—but sometimes unconventional is exactly what’s called for. Summer in P’town is definitely earning its reputation as Sodom-by-the Sea. Daniel scored a job tending bar for the season and Clarisse is here too, looking fabulous and searching for trouble. Only she finds the wrong kind when a dead body turns up on a beach. No one knew Jeff that well, but his arresting cobalt eyes certainly caught people’s attention. They made him some friends—and quite a few enemies. Which of these killed him? “In many ways it’s not all that different from Miss Marple snooping about St. Mary Mead, only here drag queens replace governesses and coke dealers replace vicars.” —Gay Community News
- Slate
Boston’s hottest new gay bar is making a killing in this mystery first published in 1984 that’s “screamingly funny in the gayest way!” (The New York Times). Daniel Valentine is a gay bartender. Clarisse Lovelace is his straight pal. From Boston’s gay underground to the fabulous beaches of Provincetown, they do everything together (well, okay, not everything). And between it all, they still find time to solve a few murders. When Clarissa is gifted a run-down building by her gay uncle Noah, she and Daniel decide to make a dream come true: opening their own gay bar. While Clarissa heads off to law school, Daniel gets busy turning their new bar into Boston’s grooviest gay boite. In this exuberantly pre-AIDS world, everything seems perfectly peachy—until Daniel discovers a dead body at the disco.
- Canary
A gay bar’s business is getting killed—along with its clientele—in the final novel of this beloved mystery series set in early-eighties Boston. Daniel Valentine is Boston’s most fabulous gay bartender. Clarisse Lovelace is his straight—yet glorious—pal and business partner. Together they run Lovelace’s bar. And also, when necessary, solve the occasional murder. Lovelace’s bar, once the darling of Boston’s gay brigade, is losing money like crazy—mostly because someone keeps leaving dead bodies around. The cops are, unsurprisingly, not interested in the gay community’s problems. Good thing Valentine and Lovelace know a thing or two about catching killers.
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