A Queer Case

Auteur

Robert Holtom is an award-winning playwright in their thirties, based in London. Their play ?Dumbledore Is So Gay? won a VAULT Festival Origins Award for new work and an Offies Commendation in 2020. It played on The Pleasance main stage in 2021, received five stars from the Daily Express, Broadway World and Theatre Weekly, and a new production had a successful run at the Southwark Playhouse in 2023. Twitter/X: @Robert_Holtom

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Pacy, evocative Golden Age whodunnit in the style of Agatha Christie, this opening novel in the Selby Bigge mysteries series features a gay amateur sleuth who must solve a murder in a London mansion without ever revealing his sexuality, in case he is arrested as a criminal himself. Perfect for fans of Nicola Upson?s Josephine Tey novels. Set in London 1929, A Queer Case follows the exploits of Selby Bigge, a gay man who finds himself embroiled in a murder. Selby is a bank clerk by day and a denizen of London?s homosexual underworld by night. He yearns for a more glamorous life and is delighted to receive an invitation to the birthday of the rich banker Sir Lionel Duker. At the party Sir Lionel?s wife is murdered and it doesn?t take long for Selby to realise everyone has a motive ? himself included. His love of other men makes him a criminal and Lady Duker had worked this out moments before she was strangled, so Selby must keep his secrets close to his chest as he tries to solve the murder.

Résumé
A gripping 1920s-set whodunnit, this debut features a queer sleuth who must solve a murder in a mansion on London's Hampstead Heath without revealing his sexuality, lest he be arrested as a criminal. The first of the Selby Bigge mysteries, it will leave readers eager for the next installment.