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.
