St Sukie De La Croix

Twilight Manors in Palm Springs: The Peculiar Case of the Follies Dancer (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Brian and Stéphane strike again! (As if they haven't caused enough trouble already!)

Everyone's favorite politically incorrect couple, Brian and Stéphane, embark on yet another zany adventure in Twilight Manors in Palm Springs: The Peculiar Case of the Follies Dancer.

It begins when Stéphane's birthday "treat "goes awry. While having breakfast in a Mexican restaurant in Rancho Mirage, a skeleton falls out of the wall onto their table. It's the beginning of a treasure hunt to uncover the secrets of a silent movie star from the 1920s.

Along the way, the duo wreaks havoc and mayhem everywhere they go, including a Hells Angels wedding, a zoo, a funeral, a silent film festival, the Antiques Roadshow, and a lecture on "How to make a beautiful corpse.'

New characters help or hinder our heroes in their quest. Among them are Nigel and Simon, two British make-up artists, Krystal the stand-up comedienne, and a Christian lady with a potty-mouthed parrot.

Twilight Manors in Palm Springs: The Peculiar Case of the Follies Dancer is book three in the hilarious Brian and Stéphane series.

WARNING! You will laugh out loud and may annoy others around you. Do not drink and read, it may come out of your nose.

Praise for Twilight Manors in Palm Springs: The Peculiar Case of the Follies Dancer

"Brian and Stephane, Sukie de la Croix's bickering amateur sleuths of a certain age, are back at it in Twilight Manors in Palm Springs: The Peculiar Case of the Follies Dancer. As in their previous outings, they are hilarious, outrageous, scatological and decidedly politically incorrect as they traverse Palm Springs and environs in a twisted treasure hunt that begins when a skeleton topples out of the wall of a restaurant and onto their table. Fans of their earlier adventures will be delighted by the new book that, once again, casts a broad and satiric, but not unaffectionate, eye at their adopted hometown and its eccentric inhabitants."

Michael Nava, author of the Henry Rios mysteries.

"In Twilight Manors in Palm Springs: The Peculiar Case of the Follies Dancer, St Sukie de la Croix once again takes us on a laugh-out-loud roller-coaster ride of hilarity. The novel is brilliantly witty and endlessly clever with an acute sense of the absurd. De la Croix is the love child of Monty Python, P.G. Wodehouse, and the Hardy Boys."

Daniel M. Jaffe, author of The Grand Sex Tour Murders

"A fatal faceplant into an omelet, a tumbling skeleton, an ostrich ambush, and severe digestive cramping...all in the first ten pages? Clearly, you have been taken into the wicked hands of St. Sukie de la Croix, whose third Twilight Manors in Palm Springs Mystery, The Peculiar Case of the Follies Dancer, is as uproarious as the first two in the series. Like a hyped-up Nick and Nora Charles, bickering life partners Brian and Stephane hotfoot it all over Riverside County in search of treasure that belonged to a murdered showgirl with Sapphist secrets. To solve the case, the duo must face down scorching temperatures, a biker wedding, Barry Manilow, and a randy llama with only one thing on its mind. Equally gifted at the extended comic set-piece and the throwaway quip, St. Croix has created another thoroughly dizzy, thoroughly filthy, and thoroughly marvelous read."

James Magruder, Vamp Until Ready

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rattling Good Yarns Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781955826341
• Artikelnr.: 67602521

Autorenporträt

For three decades, St Sukie de la Croix, 70, has been a social commentator and researcher on Chicago's LGBT history. He has published oral-history interviews; lectured; conducted historical tours; documented LGBT life through columns, photographs, humor features, and fiction; and written the book Chicago Whispers (U. of Wisconsin Press, 2012) on local LGBT history. St Sukie de la Croix, the man the Chicago Sun-Times described as "the gay Studs Terkel," came to Chicago from his native Bath, England, in 1991. His columns appeared in news and entertainment sources such as Chicago Free Press, Gay Chicago, Nightlines/Nightspots, Outlines, Blacklines, Windy City Times, and GoPride.com, and publications around the country. In 2008 he was a historical consultant and appeared in the WTTW television documentary Out & Proud in Chicago. His crowning achievement came in 2012 when the University of Wisconsin published his in-depth, vibrant record of LGBT Chicagoans, Chicago Whispers: A History of LGBT Chicago Before Stonewall. The book received glowing reviews and cemented de la Croix's deserved position as a top-ranking historian and leader. In 2012 de la Croix was inducted into the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame. In 2017 he published The Blue Spong and the Flight from Mediocrity, a novel set in 1924 Chicago, followed by The Orange Spong and Storytelling at the Vamp Art Café in 2020. In 2018 he published The Memoir of a Groucho Marxist, a work about growing up Gay in Great Britain, and in 2019, Out of the Underground: Homosexuals, the Radical Press and the Rise and Fall of the Gay Liberation Front. In 2019, St Sukie de la Croix and Owen Keehnen launched their Tell Me About It Project, which led to the 2019 publication of Tell Me About It. Two more volumes followed. In 2020, he published, The Orange Spong and Storytelling at the Vamp-Arts Café, the second book in the popular Spong Series. St Sukie continued his LGBTQ Chicago history series in 2021 with the publication of Chicago After Stonewall: A History of LGBTQ Chicago from Gay Lib to Gay Life, continuing the narrative of the Chicago LGBTQ rights movement from where Chicago Whispers, left off. His newest book, Twilight Manors in Palm Springs, God's Waiting Room, is his fourth novel.