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The Resource Blackmail, my love, by Katie Gilmartin
Blackmail, my love, by Katie Gilmartin
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The item Blackmail, my love, by Katie Gilmartin represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item Blackmail, my love, by Katie Gilmartin represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- "Josie O'Conner travels to San Francisco in 1951 to locate her gay brother, a private dick investigating a blackmail ring targeting lesbians and gay men. Jimmy's friends claim that just before he disappeared he became a rat, informing the cops on the bar community's nascent resistance to raids, graft, and brutality. Josie adopts Jimmy's trousers and wingtips as well as his investigation, battling to clear his name, halt the blackmailers, and exact justice for the mounting number of Queer corpses. Along the way she rubs shoulders with a sultry chanteuse running a dyke tavern called Pandora's Box; gets intimate with a red-headed madame operating a brothel from the Police Personnel Department; and conspires with the star of Finocchio's a dive so disreputable it's off limits to servicemen--so every man in uniform pays a visit. Blackmail, My Love is an illustrated murder mystery deeply steeped in San Francisco's Queer history. Established academic and first-time novelist Katie Gilmartin's diverse set of characters negotiate the risks of same-sex desire in what can arguably be called the Dark Ages of Queerdom. Humor leavens the grave subject matter. The novel's action is fueled by a little-known 1951 California Supreme Court ruling that homosexuals have a right to congregate: the decision incited tavern owner resistance to customary payoffs in exchange for police protection, but also provoked new surveillance tactics to justify raids and extortion. Set in such legendary locations as the Black Cat Cafe, the Fillmore during its heyday as jazz capitol of the west, the Beat movement's North Beach, and the sexually complex Tenderloin, Blackmail, My Love is neo-noir novel that distills history and fiction into a singular, visually stunning experience"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Note
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- This is an OverDrive title
- Historical note at end of volume is a brief summary of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history in the United States and California in particular
- Isbn
- 9781627780766
- Label
- Blackmail, my love
- Title
- Blackmail, my love
- Statement of responsibility
- by Katie Gilmartin
- Subject
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- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- California -- San Francisco
- Electronic books
- Extortion
- Extortion -- Fiction
- FICTION / General
- Fiction
- Gay bars
- Gay bars -- Fiction
- Gay private investigators
- Gay private investigators -- Fiction
- Gays
- Gays -- History -- 20th century
- Brothers and sisters
- Gays -- Violence against -- Fiction
- History
- Mystery fiction
- Noir fiction
- Police corruption
- Police corruption -- Fiction
- San Francisco (California) -- Fiction
- Gays -- Violence against
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Josie O'Conner travels to San Francisco in 1951 to locate her gay brother, a private dick investigating a blackmail ring targeting lesbians and gay men. Jimmy's friends claim that just before he disappeared he became a rat, informing the cops on the bar community's nascent resistance to raids, graft, and brutality. Josie adopts Jimmy's trousers and wingtips as well as his investigation, battling to clear his name, halt the blackmailers, and exact justice for the mounting number of Queer corpses. Along the way she rubs shoulders with a sultry chanteuse running a dyke tavern called Pandora's Box; gets intimate with a red-headed madame operating a brothel from the Police Personnel Department; and conspires with the star of Finocchio's a dive so disreputable it's off limits to servicemen--so every man in uniform pays a visit. Blackmail, My Love is an illustrated murder mystery deeply steeped in San Francisco's Queer history. Established academic and first-time novelist Katie Gilmartin's diverse set of characters negotiate the risks of same-sex desire in what can arguably be called the Dark Ages of Queerdom. Humor leavens the grave subject matter. The novel's action is fueled by a little-known 1951 California Supreme Court ruling that homosexuals have a right to congregate: the decision incited tavern owner resistance to customary payoffs in exchange for police protection, but also provoked new surveillance tactics to justify raids and extortion. Set in such legendary locations as the Black Cat Cafe, the Fillmore during its heyday as jazz capitol of the west, the Beat movement's North Beach, and the sexually complex Tenderloin, Blackmail, My Love is neo-noir novel that distills history and fiction into a singular, visually stunning experience"--
- Assigning source
- provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- TEFOD
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Gilmartin, Katie
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3607.I452145
- LC item number
- B53 2014eb
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Gay private investigators
- Brothers and sisters
- Extortion
- Police corruption
- Gays
- Gay bars
- Gays
- Brothers and sisters
- Extortion
- Gay bars
- Gay private investigators
- Gays
- Gays
- Police corruption
- FICTION / General
- San Francisco (California)
- California
- Label
- Blackmail, my love, by Katie Gilmartin
- Note
-
- This is an OverDrive title
- Historical note at end of volume is a brief summary of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history in the United States and California in particular
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn893096368
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781627780766
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 2107C073-896E-43B5-9BC7-715FB2C82D4E
- System control number
- (OCoLC)893096368
- Label
- Blackmail, my love, by Katie Gilmartin
- Note
-
- This is an OverDrive title
- Historical note at end of volume is a brief summary of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history in the United States and California in particular
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn893096368
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781627780766
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 2107C073-896E-43B5-9BC7-715FB2C82D4E
- System control number
- (OCoLC)893096368
Subject
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- California -- San Francisco
- Electronic books
- Extortion
- Extortion -- Fiction
- FICTION / General
- Fiction
- Gay bars
- Gay bars -- Fiction
- Gay private investigators
- Gay private investigators -- Fiction
- Gays
- Gays -- History -- 20th century
- Brothers and sisters
- Gays -- Violence against -- Fiction
- History
- Mystery fiction
- Noir fiction
- Police corruption
- Police corruption -- Fiction
- San Francisco (California) -- Fiction
- Gays -- Violence against
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