The Tenth Virgin

Gabe Utley #1

by Gary Stewart

Gabriel Utley is called back to Salt Lake City after twenty years by Linda Peterson, a woman he once loved who now asks his help in searching for her missing sixteen-year-old daughter

243 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

Gary L. Stewart (1937-2018) was born in Salt Lake City and raised as a Mormon. He held a doctorate in theater criticism from the University of Iowa and spent 36 years in academia. He taught theater at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (UMASS), and then at Indiana State University (ISU). He wrote two “Gabriel Utley” crime novels, several plays and Avenging Angel, an unpublished western that became a feature film starring Tom Berenger, Charlton Heston, and James Coburn.

Reviews

[Darren Gore]

Almost 40 years after its first publication, The Tenth Virgin remains a stunning thriller.

With some reluctance, a former Salt Lake City resident turned New York PI goes looking for his high-school sweetheart's missing teenage daughter in Utah - and what he plunges into is a very brutal and grim quest through the dark side of his home state. To say the very least.

The Tenth Virgin is fast-paced, violent and vivid with several shocking moments, and always engrossing.

[Ben Boulden]

A strong plot, crisp writing, and a wonderfully developed setting (Utah in the 1980s) make THE TENTH VIRGIN an exceptional private eye novel.

[Linda]

A very strange book. Interesting, but still strange.