![]() 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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