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К полковнику полиции Геннадию Петрову – по совместительству другу телохранителя Евгении Охотниковой – обратилась Ангелина Сомова. Она по собственной инициативе решила помочь полиции в поимке своего бойфренда Сергея Крупенина, члена международной банды наркоторговцев. Его показания были как воздух необходимы Интерполу: дело, над которым долго трудились полицейские нескольких стран, грозило развалиться под напором ушлых адвокатов без показаний Крупенина, а он как в воду канул. Петров попросил Охотникову помочь в охране смелой девушки, которая категорически отказалась от защиты сотрудников полиции и других силовых ведомств. Евгения, хоть и не понимала, из каких соображений Ангелина решилась на такой странный шаг, взялась за ее защиту. И по развитию событий быстро стало понятно: только Евгения с ее опытом и независимостью может реально помочь девушке!..

Надежда чувствовала себя безумно плохо, поэтому сперва к телефону подходить не собиралась. Но тот все звонил не переставая. Она все-таки подняла трубку, и незнакомый старческий голос, перепутав ее с некой Тасей, сообщил, что скорее всего дочка Муси Серебровской и три ее подруги находятся в смертельной опасности. Объяснить старушке ее ошибку Надежда не успела, та положила трубку. Каково же было изумление Надежды, когда вечером в новостях передали: убита известная телеведущая Елена Серебровская. Пробив по базе адресов номер старушки, оставшийся на определителе, Надежда поспешила к ней, но застала у ее подъезда лишь толпу зевак и машины «Скорой помощи» и полиции. Как сообщили соседи, старушку убили, причем тем же самым способом, что и Лену Серебровскую.

Gary Griswold, cheerily dim gadfly scion of Albany old money, late of the Key West artists colony, goes missing, and his ex-wife wants to know what's happened to him - not to mention his 38 million dollars in cash. Turns out that religious dilettante Gary and his money have disappeared into Thailand, where corruption has its own etiquette. Soon, Albany's only gay PI, Don Strachey, is out of his element, and his lover Timmy is way out of his comfort zone as they comb the Land of Smiles for a man with an unerring weakness for the poorest choice possible and a daft plan to buy 38 million dollars worth of good karma. #10 in the award-winning Donald Strachey Mystery Series

Someone's left a man's body in Donald Strachey's car -- the grandson of Albany's most connected political fixer. A letter from the deceased asks Strachey to dismantle his grandfather's party machine. Like a chess master, Strachey moves ten suitcases, an army of colorful pawns (all of whom think they're king), and $2.5 million across the continent and around Albany. One of the funniest in the series. (Filmed for release by HereTV in 2008; originally published 1986.)

In an election year, Don finds himself in the unlikely role of political operative. Rumors about the Tea Party's opportunistic gubernatorial candidate, Kenyon Louderbush, paint him as an unfaithful, callous exploiter of young men...young men that he puts into the hospital...or perhaps the morgue. Don smells truth in those rumors. But, he's confounded by a shadowy conspiracy, witnesses' fear and a grieving family appallingly willing to give up on justice for a brutalized son and brother. In RED WHITE AND BLACK AND BLUE, series creator Stevenson takes witty aim at the polarization, dissembling and double-dealing of American politics. It's a story that leaves even our hero, Don, tarnished and bruised.

Three different persons all want to hire gay private detective Donald Strachey to prove that somebody other than they killed Paul Haig, the son of a rich, politically connected lush. The real fun begins when Strachey discovers that the common thread linking Haig to all his potential employers is "reparative" therapist (i.e., one of the kind that "cures" homosexuals) Vernon Crockwell, whose hatred of homosexuals is exceeded only by that of Haig's mother. Stevenson's dialogue grows increasingly hilarious as his hero deals with these two characters whose every other word derides the very person they're asking to help save them. As in other Strachey mysteries, the detective's tranquilly domestic relationship with his longtime lover stands in refreshing contrast to affairs in most other gay novels, with their less contented leading characters. 

Gay activist and accused murderer Billy Blount's missing, but Albany PI Donald Strachey doubts Billy's guilt. The 1981 book that launched Richard Stevenson's pioneering series is a cracking mystery and a fascinating trip into bygone gay culture before HIV, in the bad old days of bath houses and gay disco, police corruption and tacit policies of harassment.

Dot and Edith's happiness in their home stands in the way of their neighbors' decisions to sell to the Millpond Corporation so it can build another blight on the landscape. A campaign of intimidation, at first merely irritating, escalates to murder before PI Strachey sorts it all out and learns something about his feeling for lover Timothy Callahan.