num_pages: 199
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Back Passage
titlecomplete: The Back Passage (Mitch Mitchell Mystery, #1)
characters: Edward "Mitch" Mitchell, Harry "Boy" Morgan
genres: M M Romance, Historical, Historical Fiction, LGBT, Crime, Gay, Erotica, Mystery, Romance, Fiction
ratings_count: 1533
places: United Kingdom, Norfolk, England
series: Mitch Mitchell Mystery
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Mystery
publisher: Cleis Press