LET'S GET CRIMINAL

by Lev Raphael ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, 1996

The State University of Michigan in Michiganapolis is exactly like your own alma mater. The chair of the English department is a bisexual harasser, the latest arrival a closeted gay male, the internal candidate he beat to the appointment a zestfully bitchy female, his other colleagues phony careerists and ex-Nazis. Only one of them, though, can have killed the newcomer, Perry Cross, and inoffensive Nick Hoffman is sure it isn't his lover, writer-in-residence Stefan Borowski. As long as Stefan's innocent, Nick doesn't care which of the others did it, and since there's no way to choose among the cast's shopworn secrets, you won't care either. As if to justify one character's sniffy claim that mysteries aren't real literature, Lambda-winner Raphael (Winter Eyes, 1992, etc.) salts this slender puzzle with allusions to Wilde, Cocteau, Henry James, Agatha Christie, and Moonstruck.

Pub Date: April 1, 1996

ISBN: 1590212045

Page Count: 240

Publisher: St. Martin's

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 15, 1996

Categories: FICTION