A Ghost In The Closet
“The Funniest Damn titles in gay Fiction” - InstinctWith their fearless crime-fighting, good manners, and manly fashion sense, the Hardly boys are the pride of Feyport, Illinois. In A Ghost in the Closet, dark-haired, muscular Frank and his lovable kid brother Joe return from a gay trip to Europe to find that their parents—world-famous detective Fennel P. Hardly and his wife, Mrs. Hardly—have been kidnapped! Even worse, so have six poodles from the Lake Merrimen Dog Show. Pals Nancy Clue, Cherry Aimless, R.N., and Police Detective Jackie Jones help the Hardly boys track down the criminals—and in the meantime, pick up useful tips on fingerprinting, evidence retrieval, and the laundering of sporty twill slacks.Like her beloved camp classics The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse and The Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend, Mabel Maney’s A Ghost in the Closet brilliantly parodies 1950s boys’ and girls’ adventure series. Pull on a casual rayon shirt and join the queer caper!From the author of The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse and The Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend.
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âAmericaâs two greatest girl detective as lovers? Could anything in the history of pop culture be more irreverent?â
âNEW YORK NEWSDAY
âManey, who evidently grew up bent in a straighter-than-thou environment, has had a field day with our conventions. Wittily, subversively, she has exposed the underbelly of America: itâs softly rounded, and warm.â
âTORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL
âIn a gem of a book-length parody, the author faithfully hews to the narrative and plotting style of juvenile series fiction, her remarkably straight face making the goings on all the funnier. I loved this book â¦â
âELLERY QUEEN MYSTERY MAGAZINE
âYouâll laugh until your dress gets mussed ⦠Maney knows â50s America like she majored in Ozzie and Harriet.â
âLAMBDA BOOK REPORT
The sequel to THE CASE OF THE NOT-SO-NICE NURSE is another hoot, a lampooning of girlsâ fiction of the past full of hapless, do-gooding detectives with âkeen sleuthing abilities, up-to-the-minute fashion sense, and gracious finishing-school manners.â With a honey like Cherry, who is always careful to keep an ample supply of freshly starched, white linen handkerchiefs in her seasonally appropriate handbag, we know Nancy canât miss.â
âBOOKLIST
âUtter kitsch, done with class and distinction. Maney tools the pages like an expert, in the process bringing up a lot of dialogue about the role of lesbianism in the gay â90s, albeit subtly.â
âYOUR FLESH MAGAZINE
MABEL MANEY spent her formative years travelling the Midwest in a green wood-paneled station wagon with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Maney, and three prize-winning black-and-white cocker spaniels, Taffy, Lady and Sadie, in search of blue ribbons and shiny trophies.
After her parents were lost at sea, Mabel and her dog chums settled with their maternal grandmother, Olive Krumpke, in Clear Lake, Wisconsin. Mabel received a strict Catholic education at Our Lady of the Lake School for Girls, where she devoted herself to clean living, community service and Catholic scholarship.
Her first full-length novel, Pets of the Saints (now out-of-print), won her accolades from around the state, and her macaroni model of the last days of Joan of Arc made apparent to all her artistic bent. After an unfortunate misstep prevented her from taking the veil, Mabel moved west, eventually settling in San Francisco where she lives happily with her beloved Miss Lily Bee.
Mabel Maney is the author of The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse (Cleis, 1993) and The Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend (Cleis, 1994). Her installation art and handmade books, self-published under the World Oâ Girls imprint, have earned her fellowships from The San Francisco Foundation and San Francisco State University, where she received her MFA in 1991. She is currently working on a musical based on the characters from A Ghost in the Closet.
âItâs the secret map weâve been looking for!â
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23 Chili con Carne and Baked Alaska
38 The Strange Case of Darcy New
Dedicated to the memory of Billy Tipton
âHesang in a high voice.â
and to Herbert S. Zim,
whose delightful and informative books have provided many hours of pleasant reading
As always
for Miss Lily Bee and for Miss Coco, who will be sadly missed
Special thanks to Leasa Burton
for her keen editing skills and buckets of gratitude to my sweet boy chums for their generosity, grace and wit Tom Metz Donald Smith Chuck Stallard
âI can hardly wait to get home and show Father all the exciting new French detective techniques we learned while on our vacation!â Joe Hardly said eagerly. The dark-haired, muscular lad, one half of the crime-fighting team known far and wide as the Hardly boys, leaned against the rail of the majestic
