![]() ![]() ![]() The same process that has made it possible for Lanyon to write a successful mainstream gay detective series has made it impossible (or at least implausible) for his character Holmes to posit outing as a plausible motive.Īnd yet, at the same time, the cozy detective novels - novels typically set in small towns with amateur sleuths - parallel the workings of the closet. The closet, except in very particular circumstances, has been emptied by the progress of gay rights. ![]() As the creator of the Miss Butterwith series of cozy mysteries, he knows that the closet no longer works as an impetus to murder. “I’D … USED the blackmailed-for-being-homosexual, and except in the case of politicians and public figures, that motive had pretty much rusted to a standstill,” Christopher Holmes admits in Josh Lanyon’s first Holmes and Moriarity mystery, Somebody Killed His Editor (2009). ![]()
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