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Murder in the Collective (Pam Nilsen Mystery #1)
by
Barbara Sjoholm (Goodreads Author)
Introducing Pam Nilsen, her twin sister Penny and the Best Printing collective, a print-shop hovering on the brink of a merger with lesbian-owned B. Violet Typesetting. When sabotage and murder erupt, Pam follows a trail of suspects. The author won the Crime Writer's Association Award in 1992.
Paperback, 183 pages
Published
January 15th 1993
by Seal Press
(first published October 4th 1984)
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I think I read this as a teenager in the 90s, but I liked it just as well this time.
Seattle, mid-80s. Two leftist printing collectives, one lesbian-run, consider merging, when one shop is vandalized and a male collective member is murdered. Who done it? The alcoholic butch? The hostile dyke softball stars? The Filapina activist? Also, a straight woman gets turned out while slow-dancing to the Supremes in a lesbian bar called Sappho's. Good all around.
Seattle, mid-80s. Two leftist printing collectives, one lesbian-run, consider merging, when one shop is vandalized and a male collective member is murdered. Who done it? The alcoholic butch? The hostile dyke softball stars? The Filapina activist? Also, a straight woman gets turned out while slow-dancing to the Supremes in a lesbian bar called Sappho's. Good all around.
I bought this book years ago off the used bookshelves at Amazon (the feminist co-op bookstore, not the online behemoth) because the title cracked me up. I finally got around to reading it, and it was about what I would have expected. The political undertones were not really undertones -- there's lesbians vs. feminists vs. activists, and a healthy dose of porn-shaming that was interesting given what I've read about the sex wars going on at the time.
This was a very easy read and it never really grabbed me, either plot-wise or character-wise. As a whole it had a clear lesbian feminist message which was interesting, and cleverly constructed, but the details in the narrative were not as engaging as they could have been.
This was a very easy read and it never really grabbed me, either plot-wise or character-wise. As a whole it had a clear lesbian feminist message which was interesting, and cleverly constructed, but the details in the narrative were not as engaging as they could have been.
This book is ok, hard-boiled lesbian detective fiction. It was very slow, and the ending sucked. It seems to be a piece of feminist work, but in retrospect it seems more critical of feminism and the lesbian community then I would have expected.
If, like me, you are a late 70s/early 80s radical community geek, you will probably enjoy this quick murder mystery that chugs along just fine and is dedicated to the people of the Philippines in their struggle for liberation.
great fun, political and of its time!
A little dated now in 2009.
Funny, easy little mystery set in Seattle.
How sweet is it? A mystery book set in a 1980's (written then, too) activist collective in Seattle. Read it, especially if you have ever been in a collective.
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Most of my life has been spent in the literary arts, as a writer, editor, translator, teacher, and publisher. As a writer, my work has ranged from fiction and mysteries to journalism and creative nonfiction, particularly memoirs and travel narratives. Some of my best-known works are two mysteries series, one with printer-sleuth Pam Nilsen and one with the translator Cassandra Reilly. These were pu...more
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