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The Monkey's Mask:

An Erotic Murder Mystery
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28 Reviews
Arcade Publishing, 1994 - Fiction - 260 pages
Private investigator Jill Fitzpatrick didn't know that the poetry scene could be as sticky as sex, or that words could open up your legs one minute and open up your grave the next. Mickey didn't know it either - Mickey who loved poetry and read it every day. Sweet girl, just nineteen, the life strangled out of her.
Put on the case by Mickey's suburbanite parents, Jill's up to her ears in sleazy poets, corruption and deceit. And seduction - lovely, intoxicating seduction - dished up by Mickey's former poetry professor, Diana Maitland. Like hot wine, Diana fills Jill's head, her throat, her lungs; heavy glassfuls soaking her mind.
Deep digging into the tightly knit verse community turns up some dangerous truth, truth that just isn't beauty. Jill's closer than she knows, but killers don't like to be caught, and poets' pens can bleed more than just ink.
  

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Gorgeous characterisation through the use of verse. - Goodreads
The plot itself is hard for me to review. - Goodreads
I admit to being a bit lost by the ending. - Goodreads

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User Review  - Trevor - Goodreads

I preferred to read the poetry in this as prose that had been chopped up funny – and that was fairly easy to do as the poetry was so light and insubstantial that it might as well have been prose most ... Read full review

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User Review  - gwscrsc - Goodreads

Remember when they brought out films in Sensurround and Smell-o-vision? You didn't really go to see the film for the plot now, didja? Writing a bog standard noir novel in verse is a little like that. Read full review

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Selected pages

Contents

THE NEW JOB l
3
MICKEYS FRIENDS
16
THE FULL MOON
39
INSURANCE WORK
57
IN LOVE WITH AN INTELLECTUAL
65
MICKEYS POEMS
107
VERSE AND JESUS
161
BRISBANE
191
THE EMPTY UNIVERSITY
204
THE WANING MOON
217
IT AINT NECESSARILY So
235
THE MONKEYS MASK
260
A NOTE ON THE LANGUAGE
263
Copyright

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The Monkey's Mask
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The Monkey's Mask, An Erotic Murder Mystery
A daring new twist on the mystery genre, is a rhythmic charge through murder, deceit, and the moist heat of really good sex
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Frontline Books: The Monkey's Mask - Dorothy Porter
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TitleThe Monkey's Mask: An Erotic Murder Mystery
AuthorDorothy Porter
Editionreprint
PublisherArcade Publishing, 1994
ISBN1559703040, 9781559703048
Length260 pages
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