Mlrpress: 135 books

Sixteen years after this 1992 story and forced outing remains a hot button in gay politics. When an activist's claims that men he's outed are stalking him don't ring true Albany's only gay PI drops his protection detail - and the client winds up dead. Strachey peels back the layers of his client's double cross only to find...a triple cross.

Gadfly scion of Albany old money Gary Griswold goes missing in Thailand and his ex-wife wants him found - with his 38 million dollars. Soon Albany's only gay PI Don Strachey is out of his element and lover Timmy is out of his comfort zone combing the Land of Smiles for a man with unerring weakness for the poorest possible choice and a daft plan to buy 38 million dollars worth of good karma.

When Hunny 'You go girl!' Van Horn Albany's flaming-est working-class flamer wins the state lottery's first billion-dollar payout his chaotic life gets even messier. It's PI Don Strachey who's brought in to deal with the skeletons tumbling out of Hunny's non-closet some violent. The eleventh Strachey...

Violence interrupts quiet reflection on tragedy when Donald and Timmy visit Washington to view the AIDS Memorial Quilt. Unexpected stories about a disgraced conservative congresswoman and a gay Lothario with designs on Strachey are catalysts for Donald's investigation into a memorial to a man who isn't quite as dead as he seems.

Gay teacher Skyler Foxe thought teaching English Lit was murder. Wait till he falls into the real thing.Skyler Foxe is a brand new English teacher in his hometown of Redlands CA. He loves literature loves his students loves his friends especially his best friend Detective Sidney Feldman. But he doesn't...

Grit permeates each crevice of the Great Depression and the men living through it. This sex-saturated tale from William Maltese and Jardonn Smith is of have's and have-not's -- who run trains across the Dust Bowl ... who hitch trains to escape poverty and despair.

The Ridgemonts are wealthy and influential New Mexico Territory landowners. Their status purportedly is purchased by seemingly inexhaustible capital provided by their reputed Deadmen Hills' gold mine. It's only human nature that others want to share in their bounty. That these others have to...

Our men and women in uniform sacrifice daily to serve our country. But what about the additional voluntary sacrifice that each gay person in the military makes daily when they don their uniform? We ask these men and women to not only serve their country but serve in silence and denial sacrificing not...

Inside the grounds of the infamous Tower of London. Patrick whose Irish lover Ian was killed by an English homicidal butcher behind the wheel of a speeding car. Tad whose American parents have sent their erring son to live with Brit relatives one of whom is a Tower yeoman. Six Tower Ravens the subjects...

Can ghosts influence the living? Can they make a man fall in love? Help him see things in different lights? William Maltese A.M. Riley and Lex Valentine weave four tales that pose these questions and answer the question LOVE ME DEAD?

LUDUS SCAENICUS MORTIS RUBRAE by William Maltese ~ Edgar Allen Poe made the party famous; William Maltese provides yet another perspective of the deadly goings-on through the eyes of two lovers.This short story is also part of the RED anthology.

Straight cop gay cop and a woman who "isn't real." Tom and Stanley are on the trail of a drag queen serial killer and along the way they find themselves engaged in a more intimate pursuit trying to resolve another mystery: their unexpected attraction to one another.

The hospital says it was an accident. Patience Pendleton says someone is trying to murder her father - but who? Her demented twin Prudence? Or Farley the jilted fiancee who thought he would be marrying money? Or Zack the queer brother threatened with disinheritance? Or might it be the ghosts of past evil...?

A painful past. A mysterious stranger. Footsteps vanishing in the fog. All Stanley wants is just to hear Tom say "I love you." All Tom wants is Stanley safe. And the stranger? Ah there's the rub--what exactly is it that he wants?Be careful what you wish for fellows. You may get it. Dreams can be deadly.