In a new Pharaoh Love mystery, the sassy, gay, African-American NYPD detective goes undercover in Chinatown to stop a powerful crimelord involved in Asian slave trade, gambling, prostitution, and protection rackets.
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A messy, inane plot and lame attempts at humor sink the latest in Baxt's series starring gay, black NYPD detective Pharaoh Love. A Chinatown gang boss feuds with his wife, his underlings and his silent partner, a Greek shipping heiress, while trying to fend off the feds and the cops. Pharaoh infiltrates the operation, adventuring from China to Far Rockaway to various undifferentiated spots in the Big Apple. Baxt reaches for one-liners here, but most fall short: a mansion is filled with pictures of "old masters and old mistresses"; after a freighter full of illegal aliens runs aground, one cop says, "'Look at the bodies floating face downward! They're dead!' 'Or disinterested,' " responds another. Pharaoh insists he's fighting homophobia, but he seems all flamboyant clothes and gratuitous campiness ("'Oh God, I can't be preggers again!'") and remains a hollow figure. There's little to recommend here.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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A Little Strange and a little Light but overall charming,
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This review is from: A QUEER KIND OF UMBRELLA: A PHAROAH LOVE MYSTERY (A Pharaoh Love Story) (Hardcover)
I think this was the most charming murder mystery I have had cross my bedside table for weeks. Sure there are some plot dilemmas that are not quite cleared up and I am never quite clear which one is Pharoah's boyfriend this time. But it got wrapped up in the end alright and I liked it. Some books I read and forget - but this one I think I will remember, because the author writes uniquely.
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