Shock to the System
Published on 20. June 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
230 pages
978-1-951092-84-9 (ISBN)
Description
A Donald Strachey Mystery, Book 5 - Donald Strachey is asked to investigate the suspicious death of Paul Haig by three different people-Haig's homophobic mother, his ex-lover, and the psychiatrist hired to "cure" him of his homosexuality. Just as he gets started, however, all three remove him from the case, leaving Strachey with a brutal murderer that now everyone wants left alone.
Written over a period of three decades, the Donald Strachey series authentically chronicles gay life as it unfolded in upstate New York. Shock to the System was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Mystery. An author's note is included.
¿"Stevenson's real coup in Shock to the System is his memorably varied cast of suspects." - Kirkus Reviews
"Sassy and sexy ... Don Strachey is a private dick who really earns his title." - Armistead Maupin
"Stevenson writes wittily and knowingly about his subjects, both the gay world and the world of politics, and draws telling portraits of the bitter, clever amusing men who inhabit both." - West Coast Review of Books
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
282 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-951092-84-9 (9781951092849)
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RICHARD STEVENSON is the pseudonym of Richard Lipez, author of 19 books, including the Don Strachey private eye series. A former editorial writer at The Berkshire Eagle, Lipez reviewed mysteries and thrillers for The Washington Post. His reporting, reviews, and fiction appeared in Newsday, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, Harper's, and many other publications. Four of the Strachey books have been filmed by HereTV. Red White Black and Blue, the twelfth Strachey book, won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Mystery in 2011. The first in a new PI series, Knock Off the Hat: A Clifford Waterman Mystery, set in Philadelphia in 1947, was published in 2022 by Amble Press. Lipez grew up and was educated in Pennsylvania and taught in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia. He was married to sculptor and video artist Joe Wheaton and lived in Becket, Massachusetts. Richard Stevenson passed away in March, 2022.