A Queer Kind of Death

A Queer Kind of Death

Rating

7.0

The Pequod Review:

Published in 1966, George Baxt's A Queer Kind of Death was at the time a pioneering mystery novel that centers on the death of a gay New York City model (Ben Bentley) and its subsequent investigation by a homosexual African-American detective (Pharaoh Love). But in every other way the book is conservative, with its conventionally-structured procedural plot and its predictably cliched characters.