Blackmail, My Love: A Murder Mystery
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.67 (555 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1627780645 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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A Winner Of Its Kind! Blackmail, My Love was a real delight, and it's a treasure. You won't see San Francisco the same again after reading this one. And seriously, the author's illustration skills are just wonderful. How can anyone not love them? The characters, writing, and illustrations aside, I really did love how the neo-noir genre is so alive in this, and it's done with such style, grace, and class, which I can imagine is not easy to do. And Katie upholds that genre and tradition so well that it's simplyperfect.. "Book Review by Ulysses" according to PrismBookAlliance. 5 of 5 StarsFor original review see The Prism Book Alliance Blog onlineOne thing I’ve learned as a curator is that the “olden days” were not better. The more I learn about the past the happier I am to be right in the here and now. I’ve never met a curator who romanticizes the past. We know too much.As a gay man I’m even more confirmed in this belief. There really were no “good old days” for us. There was only survival and, at best, a cobbled-together happiness based on discretion, constant vigilance and luck.Katie Gilmartin has produced a fascin. Arpita Bose said Being Gay Is Not Criminal, but the Way Gay Individuals Were (and Still Are) Being Treated Is. As a traditional hard boiled mystery novel, this book is passable. The mystery is barely plausible, with lots of inconsistencies. To be fair, it is written in the style of lesbian pulp fiction novels, which were hardly realistic. But readers should not dismiss this book so easily.As a document of how dangerous it was to live authentically as a gay or lesbian individual in 1950s America--even in San Francisco--this book is fantastic. The author's accounts of the abuse and persecution that LGBT people experienced from strangers, as well as from their families, the police, and the governme
That's how you know you've had a history lesson that's tough and precious as a '50s femme."Carol Queen, author of The Leather Daddy and The Femme"A hardboiled homage and detailed, nostalgic romp through post-WWII San Francisco, Blackmail, My Love reveals and revels in the City of 1951 through a GLBT lens, and the history is spot-on."Kelli Stanley, award-winning author of City of Dragons"What else do I love about this book? I love that Gilmartin writes with a smooth, tough-girl smokin
Josie adopts Jimmy's trousers and wingtips, to clear his name, halt the blackmailers, and exact justice for too many queer corpses. Set in such legendary locations as the Black Cat Cafe, the Fillmore, the Beat movement's North Beach, and the Tenderloin, Blackmail, My Love is a singular, stunning introduction to a new author and to gay noir.. Along the way she rubs shoulders with a sultry chanteuse running a dyke tavern called Pandora's Box, gets intimate with a red-headed madam operating a brothel from the Police Personnel Department, and conspires with the star of Finocchio's, a dive so disreputable it's off limits to servicemen — so every man in uniform pays a visit.Blackmail, My Love is an illustrated murder mystery deeply steeped in San Francisco's queer history, as