Flight of Aquavit

Flight of Aquavit
Author: Anthony Bidulka
Publisher: Insomniac Press
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2011-09-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1554830559

"As Quant trails a menacing blackmailer known only as Loverboy, he finds himself immersed in the midnight worlds of online dating and parking lot romance."--Page 4 of cover.

The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film

The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film
Author: Drewey Wayne Gunn
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2013
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0810885883

In The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film (2005), scholar Drewey Wayne Gunn examined the history of gay detectives beginning with the first recognized gay novel, The Heart in Exile, which appeared in 1953. In the years since the original edition's publication, hundreds of novels and short stories in this sub-genre have been produced, and Gunn has unearthed many additional representations previously unrecorded. In this new edition, Gunn provides an overview of milestones in the development of gay detectives over the last several decades. Also included in this volume is an annotated list of novels, short stories, plays, graphic novels, comic strips, films, and television series with gay detectives, gay sleuths of secondary importance, and non-sleuthing gay policemen. The most complete listing available--including the only listing of early gay pulp novels, present-day male-to-male romances, and erotic films--this new edition brings the work up to date with publications missed in the first edition, particularly cross-genre mysteries, early pulps, and some hard-to-find volumes. The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film: A History and Annotated Bibliography lists all printed works in English (including translations) presently known to include gay detectives (such as amateur sleuths, police detectives, private investigators, and investigative reporters), from the 1929 play Rope until the present day. It includes all films in English, subtitled or dubbed, from the screen version of Rope in 1948 and the launch of the independent film Spy on the Fly in 1966 through the end of 2011. Complete with two appendices--a bibliography of sources and a list of Lambda Literary Awards--and indexes of titles, detectives, and actors, this extensively revised and updated reference will prove invaluable to mystery collectors, researchers, aficionados of the subgenre, and those devoted to GLBTQ studies.

The Routledge Introduction to Canadian Crime Fiction

The Routledge Introduction to Canadian Crime Fiction
Author: Pamela Bedore
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2024-02-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1003852610

Who are the most important Canadian crime and detective writers? How do they help represent Canada as a nation? How do they distinguish Canada’s approach to questions of crime, detection, and social justice from those of other countries? The Routledge Introduction to Canadian Crime Fiction provides a much-needed investigation into how crime and detection have been, are, and will be represented within Canada’s national literature, with an attention to contemporary popular and literary texts. The book draws together a representative set of established Canadian authors who would appear in most courses on Canadian crime and detective fiction, while also introducing a few authors less established in the field. Ultimately, the book argues that crime fiction is a space of enormously productive hybridity that offers fresh new approaches to considering questions of national identity, gender, race, sexuality, and even genre.

The Essential Mystery Lists

The Essential Mystery Lists
Author: Roger M Sobin
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Inc
Total Pages: 591
Release: 2011-09-30
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1615952039

For the first time in one place, Roger M. Sobin has compiled a list of nominees and award winners of virtually every mystery award ever presented. He has also included many of the “best of” lists by more than fifty of the most important contributors to the genre.; Mr. Sobin spent more than two decades gathering the data and lists in this volume, much of that time he used to recheck the accuracy of the material he had collected. Several of the “best of” lists appear here for the first time in book form. Several others have been unavailable for a number of years.; Of special note, are Anthony Boucher’s “Best Picks for the Year.” Boucher, one of the major mystery reviewers of all time, reviewed for The San Francisco Chronicle, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and The New York Times. From these resources Mr. Sobin created “Boucher’s Best” and “Important Lists to Consider,” lists that provide insight into important writing in the field from 1942 through Boucher’s death in 1968.? This is a great resource for all mystery readers and collectors.; ; Winner of the 2008 Macavity Awards for Best Mystery Nonfiction.

Storm Flight

Storm Flight
Author: Mark Berent
Publisher: Mark Berent
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1993
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0399138145

The fifth and final novel in this Vietnam series encompasses a daring raid on a POW camp to get evidence that could effect the war. Read by Paul Ukena.

Airborne Measurements for Environmental Research

Airborne Measurements for Environmental Research
Author: Manfred Wendisch
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 659
Release: 2013-03-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3527653236

This first comprehensive review of airborne measurement principles covers all atmospheric components and surface parameters. It describes the common techniques to characterize aerosol particles and cloud/precipitation elements, while also explaining radiation quantities and pertinent hyperspectral and active remote sensing measurement techniques along the way. As a result, the major principles of operation are introduced and exemplified using specific instruments, treating both classic and emerging measurement techniques. The two editors head an international community of eminent scientists, all of them accepted and experienced specialists in their field, who help readers to understand specific problems related to airborne research, such as immanent uncertainties and limitations. They also provide guidance on the suitability of instruments to measure certain parameters and to select the correct type of device. While primarily intended for climate, geophysical and atmospheric researchers, its relevance to solar system objects makes this work equally appealing to astronomers studying atmospheres of solar system bodies with telescopes and space probes.

Flight Into Darkness

Flight Into Darkness
Author: Sarah Ash
Publisher: Spectra
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2010
Genre: Dragons
ISBN: 0553589865

From the highly acclaimed author of "Tracing the Shadow" comes the conclusionto her new duology, set in a rich and vital fantasy world.

Amuse Bouche

Amuse Bouche
Author: Anthony Bidulka
Publisher: Insomniac Press
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2011-03-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1554830400

When a groom from a gay wedding goes missing, Russell Quant, a rookie private detective, investigates his first big case.

An Imperfect Spy

An Imperfect Spy
Author: Amanda Cross
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2011-07-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307802159

"FASCINATING . . . The dialogue is, as always, elegant and polished." --Los Angeles Times While guest-teaching a semester at Schuyler Law School, Kate Fansler gets to know an extraordinary secretary named Harriet, who patterns her life after John le Carré's character George Smiley. Harriet reveals that Schuyler has some serious skeletons swinging in its perfectly appointed closets, including the fate of Schuyler's only tenured female professor and a faculty wife who has killed her husband. As if Kate doesn't have enough to tackle, she is also up against the men who comprise the faculty of Schuyler itself--a thoroughly unapologetic bastion of white male power, mediocrity, and misogyny. Although she has only a few months on campus, Kate refuses to let Schuyler's rigid ideals and insistence on secrecy suppress her indefatigable curiosity--or her obsession with the truth. . . . "Cross manages to keep this book as lighthearted and witty as any of the Kate Fansler mysteries, while depicting an institution as lethal as any cold war." --Marilyn French "A funny, snappish polemic on political correctitude that takes great relish in Kate's sardonic views." --The New York Times Book Review