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Agatha Christie, move over! Hard-core sex and scandal meet in this brilliantly funny whodunit. A seaside village, an English country house, a family of wealthy eccentrics and their equally peculiar servants, a determined detective -- all the ingredients are here for a cozy Agatha Christie-style whodunit. But wait -- Edward "Mitch" Mitchell is no Hercule Poirot, and The Back Passage is no Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Mitch is a handsome, insatiable 22-year-old hunk who never lets a clue stand in the way of a steamy encounter, whether it's with the local constabulary, the house secretary, or his school chum and fellow athlete Boy Morgan, who becomes his Watson when they're not busy boffing each other. When Reg Walworth is found dead in a cabinet, Sir James Eagle has his servant Weeks immediately arrested as the killer. But Mitch's observant eye pegs more plausible possibilities: polysexual chauffeur Hibbert, queenly pervert Leonard Eagle, missing scion Rex, sadistic copper Kennington, even Sir James Eagle himself. Blackmail, police corruption, a dizzying network of spyholes and secret passages, watersports, and a nonstop queer orgy backstairs and everyplace else mark this hilariously hard-core mystery by a major new talent.
Usually I find that gay 'erotic' novels are a series of sex scenes built around a theme rather than being a 'novel' built around a story line. Lear manages to not only include a great range of very hot scenes, he does it totally in the context of a plot line. Sure, the plot may seem to have some gaps, but the author manages those with his tounge placed firmly in his cheek. In other words, you have a book with great sex, a plot, and humor. And the humor even infiltrates the sex scenes, not as a distraction, but to make them all the more real, interesting, and fun - and the best sex always includes a few laughs, not just who put what where "oh baby oh baby feels so good..."The authors ability to mix the genres of the English Country House Mystery and the Erotic Novel is impressive. This book could have been a mess, but his skill creates a structure to hold it all together. (Another great, fun book that manages this is "Hardball" by T. Hitman - a great mix of baseball, sex and humor!)I had expected one more sex scene to help tie up the plot, but my hope is that the absence is in indicator that this fun story with well drawn characters will continue!
