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На квартире в Сан-Франциско обнаружено тело Рикардо Ариаса, скончавшегося при загадочных обстоятельствах. Что это, убийство или самоубийство? Следствие вскоре выходит на страшные детали злобной ссоры между Рикардо и его бывшей женой Терезой. Во время процесса вскрываются темные подробности, касающиеся их дочери, детства Терезы, перенесшей когда-то сильную душевную драму, которая продолжает преследовать ее до сих пор…

Джеймс Хэдли Чейз (настоящее имя Рене Брабазон Раймонд) — автор более восьмидесяти детективных романов. Дж. X. Чейз — мастер «открытого» детектива, в котором читатель не ставится перед фактом совершения преступления, а шаг за шагом участвует в его подготовке. В двадцатый том Собрания сочинений включены романы «Дни печали мисс Халлаген», «Никаких орхидей для мисс Блендиш», «Вдогонку за смертью».

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!..

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.

When Hunny 'You go girl!­' Van Horn Albany's flaming-­est working-­class flamer wins the state lottery's first billion-­dollar payout his chaotic life gets even messier. It's PI Don Strachey who's brought in to deal with the skeletons tumbling out of Hunny's non-­closet some violent. The eleventh Strachey novel is part mystery part screwball comedy and entirely serious in its exploration of the multiple ways of being gay in America.