The Girl with the Golden Bouffant: An Original Jane Bond Parody

by Mabel Maney

Another hilarious Bond parody in the shape of THE GIRL WITH THE GOLDEN BOUFFANT. James Bond′s out of commission and his sister Jane must step once more into his shoes, his smoking jacket, and his girlfriend′s bedroom... When James Bond lands in hospital as the result of a nasty facial burn - while lighting a bird′s cigarette, his hair pomade explodes -- Jane Bond, his lesbian twin sister and occasional impersonator, once again dons suit and scars to masquerade as her infamous brother. Her the annual spy convention in the glamorous Las Vegas of the Rat Pack era. Her to keep her brother′s reputation intact through a carefully plotted program of gambling, boozing, and womanising. Along for the ride are British Secret Service Agent Cedric Pumpernickel, Jane′s only ally in the male spy world, and glamorous girlfriend, and G.E.O.R.G.I.E. agent, Bridget St Claire, who finds herself the unwilling love interest of a scrawny lounge singer who, along with his pack of friends, begins a campaign to bed her.The relatively ordinary convention - featuring the latest in jet pack transportation and stylish decoder rings - becomes the scene for murder when someone tosses an Estonian secret agent off the observation deck of Hoover Dam. Days spent at the blackjack table - and nights in the arms of her beautiful girlfriend - come to an abrupt end as Jane uncovers a nefarious plot to eliminate all the best spies of the western world. Complicating the plot is a romance gone an affair between Agent Pumpernickel and musical sensation Liberace has ended badly, and when Pumpernickel takes to his bed with a box of chocolates and a copy of Queen magazine, Jane must become England′s top-action man and stop the killer before he stops her.

Genres: Queer, Mystery, Fiction, LGBT, Lesbian Fiction, Humor

368 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Mabel Maney is an artist and author from San Francisco, California known for her lesbian pulp fiction. She is the author of the Nancy Clue series, a lesbian parody of the Nancy Drew, Cherry Ames, and Hardy Boys series. More recently, she is the author of the "Jane Bond" novels, a series of parodies of James Bond. Mabel's short fiction can also be found the humor anthology "May Contain Nuts".

Maney is famous for the quote "For a long time I thought I wanted to be a nun. Then I realized that what I really wanted to be was a lesbian."

Mabel was born in New Jersey. Her family moved to the midwest where was educated and permanently scarred by dour nuns. She was one of four children in an Irish Catholic family in Appleton, Wisconsin where she worked in her family's paper hat factory. She graduated from Ohio State University with a Bachelor's degree in Journalism and received a Master of Fine Arts degree from San Francisco State University.

Reviews

[Shannon McGee · Rating 4 out of 5]

So, I'm going to start of by saying that I didn't love this book the same as I did the first of the series. That said, there were moments of fun foreshadowing that I picked up on that held glimmers of the first book's charm. I just think it wrapped up too quickly for me. Also, while I think Cedric and Felix are nice enough I wanted Jane to spend more time with Bridget, Bibi, or even Mimi.

[Sarah]

Gave up on this one, made it to page 18. Perhaps I just don't care for the James Bond theme? The writing was tiring and uninteresting, and life is too damn short.

[Karen Adkins · Rating 4 out of 5]

Closer to 3.5, but the sheer uniqueness of this genre (lesbian spy parody) makes me round up.

[Jay Odon · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love Mabel Maney! She takes my childhood and puts a lesbian spin on it (not that it didn't already)! I prefer the Nancy Clue books but the Jane Bond books are entertaining and hilarious...
that said...
this book was a little long winded and it kinda got off track a little and delved too much into the areas that were not the main part of the plot. The cooking convention took center stage more than the story of Agent 007 and 1/2 and the "spy" convention... very interesting but it got kinda bogged down about half way through and I kept getting confused on who was who and what was where, etc...

I think this book would make a great movie and it would probably translate better if you could visualize the story unfolding in all its parts...

Not a must read but it is funny and who doesn't like to make fun of James Bond!

[Wanda · Rating 1 out of 5]

i realized i can't read book without an immediate hook. like a good song, i want to like it within the first few notes. i wanted to like this lesbian spoof on james bond so much that i even suffered many chapters more into it than i wanted to, just hoping it would get interesting.... or at least sexy. isn't that why i'm reading a lesbian spoof on james bond?!?! but after pages and pages of boring description and no action i had to give up. so who knows, maybe this book got really good right after i stopped reading, but i couldn't waste anymore time on it. yeah, i tried reading on vacation even.

oh well, classic literature is is not.

[Red · Rating 3 out of 5]

fun, silly, sexy, exciting, and utterly immersible. I love the whole series!