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Librarian and scholar Matt Lubbers-Moore collects and examines every mystery novel to include a gay or queer male in the English language starting with the 1909 Arthur Conan Doyle short story "The Man with the Watches". Authors, titles, dates published, publishers, book series, short blurbs, and a description of how involved the gay or queer male character is with the mystery are all included for a full bibliographic background.
Murder and Mayhem will prove invaluable for mystery collectors, researchers, libraries, general readers, aficionados, bookstores, and devotees of LGBTQ studies. The bibliography is laid out in alphabetical order by author including the blurb and author notes, whether a hard boiled private eye, an amateur cozy, a suspenseful romance, or a police procedural. All subgenres within the mystery field are included: fantasy, science fiction, espionage, political intrigue, crime dramas, courtroom thrillers, and more with a definition guide of the subgenres for a better understanding of the genre as a whole.
A ReQueered Tales Original Publication.
About the author
Matt Lubbers-Moore is over educated with three associate degrees, a bachelor's in History and a minor in Human Rights; he is working on his second master's degree in History after finishing his first in Library and Information Science in 2019. He lives in a converted creamery in Grand Rapids, Michigan with his farmer and truck driving husband, Doug. He is a founding partner of ReQueered Tales, an LGBTQ publishing house. Matt works at a bookstore, a comic book store, an academic library. He is also kept busy as one of the administrators of the Gay Mystery-Suspense-Thriller Facebook page. Matt has twice served as a judge for the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Mystery.
