Knock off the hat
Lambda Literary Award-winning author delves into the sudden and extraordinary wave of gay-bashing in 1940s Philadelphia.
It's steaming August in post-war Philadelphia. Clifford Waterman, dishonorably discharged from the Army for "an indecent act with a native" in Cairo, can't go back to his job as a police detective and is struggling to make a go of it as a private investigator. He's soon hired to help a young man caught in a gay bar raid who can't afford the $500 bribe a corrupt judge demands to make a "morals charge" go away.
In the blink of an eye, an entire gay neighborhood is suddenly under siege, and Waterman has to find out why the cops, courts, and the city powers that be have unleashed a wave of brutal gay-bashing—astonishing even for that time and place.
Kept moving by Jim Beam, bluesy jazz, and a stubborn sense of outsider's pride, Waterman makes his way through Philadelphia's social, political, and financial swamp to rescue a few unlucky souls and inflict at least a bit of damage to the rotten system that would lead to the Stonewall rebellion in New York City 22 years later.
Corruption -- Pennsylvania -- Fiction
Crimes against
Detective and mystery fiction
Gay detectives
Gay detectives -- Fiction
Gay fiction
Gays
Gays -- Crimes against -- Fiction
Gays -- Pennsylvania -- Fiction
History
LGBTQIA+
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Private investigators
Private investigators -- Fiction
Queer fiction
Waterman, Clifford
Waterman, Clifford -- (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Grouping Information
Grouped Work ID | d188e360-b26b-88b0-e6d6-d7e8bde68121 |
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Grouping Title | knock off the hat |
Grouping Author | richard stevenson |
Grouping Category | book |
Grouping Language | English (eng) |
Last Grouping Update | 2023-09-22 20:43:08PM |
Last Indexed | 2023-10-02 06:00:32AM |
Solr Fields
Detective and mystery fiction
Gay detectives -- Fiction
Gay fiction
Gays -- Crimes against -- Fiction
Gays -- Pennsylvania -- Fiction
LGBTQIA+
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Private investigators -- Fiction
Queer fiction
Waterman, Clifford -- (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Crimes against
Gay detectives
Gays
History
Private investigators
Waterman, Clifford
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