Description: A girl named Trixie is dead. Only, this girl is a guy! When a call comes in from the infamous Garden of Allah saying their top female impersonator has been stabbed to death, the mystery is on: Who knocked off this cabaret queen?
Brief description: Curt Colbert is a Vietnam vet, who is also a poet, an avid student of history, and a boxing fan. He has written three hardboiled, historical PI novels set in Seattle in the 1940's, the first of which, Rat City, was nominated for a Shamus Award. He was the editor of Seattle Noir, an anthology of noir short stories set in Seattle. In addition, under the penname, Waverly Curtis, Curt co-authored five humorous mysteries in the Barking Detective series with his writing partner, Waverly Fitzgerald. Curt lives in the Seattle suburb of Mountlake Terrace with his understanding wife, Stephanie, and under the thrall of their somewhat demanding cat, Miss Kitty.
Review Quotes:
"Colbert's cunning genius and shar"Energetically Evokes the best of classic noir fiction" The Seattle Timesp wit place him among the stars of the genre. Read him now or be square." Skye Moody