The Voluptuous Vixen - A Nick Williams Mystery, #9 - E-book - ePub

Wednesday, August 11, 1954 Nick and Carter are sailing across the sea to Honolulu on an impromptu holiday. For the sake of propriety and decorum, the ship's captain pairs them off with a "lady couple" who turn out to be much more than they appear at first glance. When one of them turns up dead in Nick and Carter's cabin, the hunt is on to find the other one before it's too late. * * * In 1953, the richest homosexual in San Francisco is a private investigator. Nick Williams lives in a modest bungalow with his fireman husband, a sweet fellow from Georgia by the name of Carter Jones. Nick's gem of a secretary, Marnie Wilson, is worried that Nick isn't working enough.
She knits a lot. Jeffrey Klein, Esquire, is Nick's friend and lawyer. He represents the guys and gals who get caught in police raids in the Tenderloin. Lt. Mike Robertson is Nick's first love and best friend. He's a good guy who's one hell of a cop. The Unexpected Heiress is where their stories begin. Read along and fall in love with the City where cable cars climb halfway to the stars. Long before the Summer of Love, pride parades down Market Street, and the fight for marriage equality, San Francisco was all about the Red Scare, F.
B. I. investigations, yellow journalism run amok, and the ladies who play mahjong over tea. * * * This is a novel that runs to about 52K words.