Richard Stevenson

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PI Strachey of Albany is hired by three people involved in the murder of a homosexual. The mother hires him to prove it's the boyfriend, the boyfriend hires him to prove it's the psychologist, and the psychologist to prove his innocence. Eventually, all three fire him and Strachey has to solve the murder on his own.

Despite the fact that he was not fond of Queer Nation activist John Rutka, notorious for his self-righteous "outing" of Albany's closeted gays, gay private eye Don Strachey agrees to help out when Rutka is shot and his house is firebombed.

In Albany, New York, a feud over the sale of a family newspaper ends in a murder. One side wanted to sell to the highest bidder, while the other wanted a buyer who would preserve the paper's liberal tradition. The murder is investigated by Donald Strachey, a homosexual private eye.

The ninth book in the Donald Strachey Mystery series. Gay marriage in Massachusetts is a fine institution except when it leads to murder, as it does in this taut, suspenseful Don Strachey private eye novel, the ninth in the classic series. Strachey and his loving foil, Timothy Callahan, are back in perfect form in this witty, ripped-from-the-headlines thriller.

PI Donald Strachey attends the showing of an aids quilt in Washington and sees a panel for a man who is not dead. When that man becomes the object of an attack, shortly afterwards, Strachey realizes the panel was no fluke.

Under normal circumstances, PI Donald Strachey wouldn't take a job from right-wing radio "shock jock" J-Bird. But Strachey not only needs the money, he's intrigued that the death threats against the radio DJ are being made in the name of a radical gay rights group that no longer exists.

When the giant Millpond Company finds its plans for a mega-shopping mall stymied by the refusal of an elderly lesbian couple to sell their home, the ladies are subjected to ugly vandalism and frightening death threats. The powerful director of Millpond in turn hires Don Strachey, Albany's only gay detective, to protect the ladies, find the culprits, and clear the corporate name. Strachey accepts w...