The Case Of The Not-So-Nice Nurse
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“The Funniest Damn titles in gay Fiction” – InstinctNurse Cherry Aimless’s first vacation from her hectic career in a big-city hospital takes her to visit her spinster Aunt Gertrude in thrilling San Francisco. Wistfully trading her starched white cap and dress for a bright yellow poplin frock with a flared skirt, young Cherry takes to the highway, never imagining the gay adventures that await her. Imagine her surprise to learn that Aunt Gertrude has been kidnapped! Armed only with the contents of her purse, and with the help of new chums Midge, Velma, and a dashing female police officer named Jackie, the plucky but innocent Cherry must save her aunt, find a gaggle of missing nuns, and stop an illegal land grab— all under the warm gaze of her hero, girl detective Nancy Clue. And when the queer caper has ended, will there be a chance for Nancy and Cherry?This sparkling parody of 1950s girl adventure stories will make you laugh out loud and long for a lemon Jell-O mold. Golly, it’s a good time!From the author of The Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend and A Ghost in the Closet.Praise for Mabel Maney“For those adults who are just big and twisted kids underneath” San Francisco Weekly“Tongue-in-cheek homoerotic hilarity that’s fun, nostalgic, and completely contemporary” Los Angeles Reader“Maney flawlessly lampoons the torpid style of both children’s books and lesbian mysteries where similarly nothing happens without at least three changes of clothing and a good, hot meal” SF Weekly“America’s two greatest girl detectives as lovers? Could anything in the history of pop culture be more irreverent?” Newsday“Maney has penned a mystery with tongue-in-cheek homoerotic hilarity that’s simultaneously fun, nostalgic and completely contemporary” Los Angeles Reader
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Mabel Maney. The Case Of The Not-So-Nice Nurse
About the Author
A Nancy Clue Mystery. The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse
Introduction
Contents
CHAPTER 1. A Tragic Blunder
CHAPTER 2. An Important Assignment
CHAPTER 3. The Journey Begins
CHAPTER 4. What a Conundrum
CHAPTER 5. An Odd Occurrence
CHAPTER 6. A Quick Escape
CHAPTER 7. An Amazing Coincidence
CHAPTER 8. Kidnapped!
CHAPTER 9. An Important Clue
CHAPTER 10. San Francisco Bound
CHAPTER 11. Follow That Car!
CHAPTER 12. A New Identity
CHAPTER 13. Startling News
CHAPTER 14. Missing!
CHAPTER 15. A Special Kiss
CHAPTER 16. An Unexpected Awakening
CHAPTER 17. Held Captive
CHAPTER 18. A Confession
CHAPTER 19. An Unfortunate Slip
CHAPTER 20. The Countdown Begins
CHAPTER 21. Just in Time!
CHAPTER 22. A Sumptuous Banquet
CHAPTER 23. A Shocking Revelation
CHAPTER 24. Cornered
CHAPTER 25. A Strange Dream?
CHAPTER 26 “Cherry, Come Quick!”
CHAPTER 27. The Call to Duty
CHAPTER 28. A Gay Day
CHAPTER 29. Oh, Nancy
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“I was born in the thriving metropolis of Oshkosh, Wisconsin,” writes Mabel Maney. “‘I’ll never forget that night,’” she recalls her mother telling her. “‘We had that big lightning storm that knocked out all of Oshkosh and most of nearby Menasha. I always thought Mabel had something to do with it,’” Mabel’s mother chuckled.
After her parents were lost at sea, Mabel took up residence with her Great Aunts Maude and Mavis Maney, who had as young women earned their living as bareback riders in a traveling circus before settling in the farm town of Appleton to write their memoirs, Circus Queens.
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“Like it?” Lana asked, polishing it on her hospital-issue cotton smock. Somehow even the cotton gown looked like a couture dress on lovely Lana. “My honey gave it to me,” she said, looking wistful. Much to Cherry’s delight, Lana seemed genuinely interested in showing off her ring.
“Oh, your hands are so tiny! I bet that ring wouldn’t fit on my pinkie!” Cherry exclaimed, hoping to get her hands on it.
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