Mary Wings
and
Emma Victor
She Came To The Castro 12th
June
She Came Too Late
She Came By The Book
Divine Victim
About the Author
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Mary Wings
and
Emma Victor
She Came To The Castro
The Fourth Emma Victor Mystery 12th June
Emma Victor is short of cash. Very short of cash. It is time to get a bigger, more major assignment. The kind that pays big time. The kind that involves violence.
That assignment comes when Victor's boss, lawyer Willie Rossini, is called on to help a blackmail victim. Who has managed to shoot a video of Rossini's client in an evening of fierce passion? Just how dirty are they prepared to play? And can Victor put a stop to them before the whole political climate of San Francisco is affected?
'Quick, exciting and sophisticated.' Guardian
'All good fun, not least because it subverts the genre classically established by the great men of crime fiction.' Sunday Times
'She writes with a brisk charm' Colin Dexter, creator of Chief Inspector Morse
An Original Publication from The Women's Press
"She was a warm body… I didn't want to know her. And I didn't want to notice the small black charred hole in the back of her trench coat. I grabbed a wrist. It was warm but there was no pulse. Not that I could feel."
Emma, at work at the Women's Hotline, receives a message from an unknown caller: 'Emma Victor, I need you'. She arranges a meeting but stumbles upon a corpse, and is soon caught up in a web of mystery linking a women's clinic and a yachting accident, drug trafficking and a high-society home…
This is a fast-moving and contentious whodunnit in the Chandler tradition, and an urbane study of lesbian sexuality and games people play.
She Came By The Book An Original Publication from The Women's Press
The third Emma Victor Mystery
'The chief archivist looked very ill indeed. Her face had paled as she leaned back into her chair soon Tracy was surrounded by tuxedos, her body jerking spasmodically, a puppet with invisible strings that some horrible force jerked without pity. Her fingernails, I noticed, were turning blue'
It's been twenty years since Emma Victor's former boss, the flamboyant politician Howard Blooming, was assassinated. Now she's promised to deliver his private papers and their secrets into safekeeping. The opening of the Howard Blooming Memorial Archive seems to provide Victor with a golden opportunity. But her mission is soon placed in deadly jeopardy when the chief archivist suddenly succumbs to cyanide poisoning
"Mary Wings has continued the Chandler tradition.. in her own brilliant style." Dominion
"Spare, witty prose as hardboiled as the boys." Listener
"Quick, exciting and sophisticated." Guardian
An Original Publication from The Women's Press
"Rebecca Cascia, who we believe to be your aunt, was deceased two months ago. She has named you as her sole heir."
When Marya inherits her aunt's creepy old house in the backwaters of Montana, she takes on more than she bargains for. The good news is the bucketload of money; the bad news - she has to live in the house for a whole year. Persuading her lover to stay with her is more than a little tricky, until the two women discover an exciting and intriguing mystery surrounding Aunt Rebecca's death concealing a passionate love affair, and the ultimate sacrilegious theft "Divine Victim had me hooked. Compulsive and intriguing" James Herbert
"She writes with a brisk charm" Colin Dexter (creator of Inspector Morse)
"Fast-moving and refreshing" Guardian
"Well paced and a terrible tease" The Pink Paper
Mary Wings was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1949 and was raised in the Baha'I Faith.
Her books featuring Emma Victor, published by The Women's Press - She Came Too Late, She Came In A Flash and She Came By The Book have been translated into
Dutch, German, Japanese and Spanish. Together with historian Eric Garber, Mary
Wings co-wrote and produced Greta Garbo, A Woman of Affairs which has been
shown at Lesbian and Gay Film Festivals in London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Turin, Amsterdam and Chicago.
She now lives in San Francisco with her two cats Sylvester and Sylvia.
"Mary Wings is in the Robert Parker genre, with her fast-moving style, wry humour and more than a tinge of social concern…. interesting and deep incursions into the varied worlds of lesbian bars, power relationships, sexuality and the games people play." Outwrite
"Wings' spare, witty prose is almost as hard-boiled as the boys', but soft-centred: sceptical, without falling into morbid cynicism." Women's Review
"Wings has managed to plug directly into the thriller mainstream without compromising her sexuality and politics." John Conquest Time Out
- She Came Too Late (1986)
- She Came In A Flash (1988)
- Divine Victim (1992)
- She Came By The Book (1995)
- She Came To The Castro (1997)
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