The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film

A History and Annotated Bibliography, New Edition

Drewey Wayne Gunn

In The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film (2005), scholar Drewey Wayne Gunn examined the history of gay detectives beginning with the first recognized gay novel, The Heart in Exile, which appeared in 1953. In the years since the original edition's publication, hundreds of novels and short stories in this sub-genre have been produced, and Gunn has unearthed many additional representations previously unrecorded.

In this new edition, Gunn provides an overview of milestones in the development of gay detectives over the last several decades. Also included in this volume is an annotated list of novels, short stories, plays, graphic novels, comic strips, films, and television series with gay detectives, gay sleuths of secondary importance, and non-sleuthing gay policemen. The most complete listing available—including the only listing of early gay pulp novels, present-day male-to-male romances, and erotic films—this new edition brings the work up to date with publications missed in the first edition, particularly cross-genre mysteries, early pulps, and some hard-to-find volumes.

The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film: A History and Annotated Bibliography lists all printed works in English (including translations) presently known to include gay detectives (such as amateur sleuths, police detectives, private investigators, and investigative reporters), from the 1929 play Rope until the present day. It includes all films in English, subtitled or dubbed, from the screen version of Rope in 1948 and the launch of the independent film Spy on the Fly in 1966 through the end of 2011. Complete with two appendices—a bibliography of sources and a list of Lambda Literary Awards—and indexes of titles, detectives, and actors, this extensively revised and updated reference will prove invaluable to mystery collectors, researchers, aficionados of the subgenre, and those devoted to GLBTQ studies.

Scarecrow Press

Pages: 442 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9¼

978-0-8108-8588-2 • Hardback • November 2012 • $136.00 • (£105.00)

978-0-8108-8589-9 • eBook • November 2012 • $129.00 • (£99.00)

Subjects: Literary Criticism / LGBT, Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism, Reference / Bibliographies & Indexes, Literary Criticism / Mystery & Detective

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A History and Annotated Bibliography, New Edition

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In The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film (2005), scholar Drewey Wayne Gunn examined the history of gay detectives beginning with the first recognized gay novel, The Heart in Exile, which appeared in 1953. In the years since the original edition's publication, hundreds of novels and short stories in this sub-genre have been produced, and Gunn has unearthed many additional representations previously unrecorded.

In this new edition, Gunn provides an overview of milestones in the development of gay detectives over the last several decades. Also included in this volume is an annotated list of novels, short stories, plays, graphic novels, comic strips, films, and television series with gay detectives, gay sleuths of secondary importance, and non-sleuthing gay policemen. The most complete listing available—including the only listing of early gay pulp novels, present-day male-to-male romances, and erotic films—this new edition brings the work up to date with publications missed in the first edition, particularly cross-genre mysteries, early pulps, and some hard-to-find volumes.

The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film: A History and Annotated Bibliography lists all printed works in English (including translations) presently known to include gay detectives (such as amateur sleuths, police detectives, private investigators, and investigative reporters), from the 1929 play Rope until the present day. It includes all films in English, subtitled or dubbed, from the screen version of Rope in 1948 and the launch of the independent film Spy on the Fly in 1966 through the end of 2011. Complete with two appendices—a bibliography of sources and a list of Lambda Literary Awards—and indexes of titles, detectives, and actors, this extensively revised and updated reference will prove invaluable to mystery collectors, researchers, aficionados of the subgenre, and those devoted to GLBTQ studies.

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Scarecrow Press

Pages: 442 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9¼

978-0-8108-8588-2 • Hardback • November 2012 • $136.00 • (£105.00)

978-0-8108-8589-9 • eBook • November 2012 • $129.00 • (£99.00)

Subjects: Literary Criticism / LGBT, Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism, Reference / Bibliographies & Indexes, Literary Criticism / Mystery & Detective

Author

Drewey Wayne Gunn is professor emeritus of English at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. He is the author or editor of eleven books, including Tennessee Williams, 2nd Edition (Scarecrow, 1991) and The Golden Age of Gay Fiction (2009).

Table of Contents

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Gay Male Sleuths in Print and Film: A History
Chapter 1. Milestones in the Development of the Gay Sleuth
Part II: Gay Male Sleuths in Print: A Bibliography
Chapter 2. The Sleuths
Section A. Novels and Short Stories
Section B. Plays, Screenplays, and Teleplays
Section C. Comic Books, Mangas, and Other Graphic Fiction
Chapter 3. Other Investigators of Interest
Section A. Novels and Selected Short Stories
Section B. Plays and Screenplays
Section C. Comic Books, Mangas, and Other Graphic Fiction
Chapter 4. Non-Sleuthing Policemen
Section A. Novels and Selected Short Stories
Section B. Plays
Section C. Comic Albums
Part III. Gay Male Sleuths in Film: A Bibliography
Chapter 5. The Sleuths
Section A. Films and Teleplays
Section B. Television and Video Series
Section C. Erotic Films
Chapter 6. Other Investigators of Interest

Section A. Films and Teleplays

Section B. Television Series

Section C. Erotic Films
Chapter 7. Non-Sleuthing Policemen

Section A. Films and Teleplays

Section B. Television Series

Section C. Selected Erotic Films

Appendix A. Critical and Bibliographical Resources

Appendix B. Lambda Literary Awards for Best Gay Mystery

Index 1: Directory of Characters

Index 2: Directory of Actors

Index 3: List of Titles

About the Author

Reviews

This updated edition of Gunn's original volume provides all new gay male sleuth detectives stories in print and on film that have been published since 2005, as well as includes any titles that were overlooked in the original edition. With a discussion of more than 800 works of literature and 100 films and nearly 20 television or video series, The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film is the definitive reference work on this topic, and it belongs in any library whose patrons might be researching this subgenre. This outstanding book is divided into three highly readable and well-organized sections....Along with a superb index, this highly recommended work concludes with two very useful appendixes, the first on critical and bibliographic resources and the second on the Lambda Literary Awards for Best Gay Men’s Mystery (1988-2011).
— American Reference Books Annual

The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film

A History and Annotated Bibliography, New Edition

Drewey Wayne Gunn

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A History and Annotated Bibliography, New Edition

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