THE SECRET TUNNEL
James Lear
Death rides the rails in this sex-drenched comic whodunit featuring the insatiable Mitch Mitchell. Handsome, muscular Edward “Mitch” Mitchell made a splash in James lear’s spicy variation on the cosy British murder mystery, The Back Passage. Now he’s back, and hornier than ever in this steamy send-up of Murder on the Orient Express.
Mitch, now a doctor in Edinburgh, is determined to live in domestic bliss with his boyfriend Vince. But when he received a tantalising invitation to London from his ex, “Boy” Morgan, Mitch jumps aboard the Flying Scotsman expecting a quick, smooth ride.
The ride turns out to be anything but smooth as Mitch discovers the scenery includes Belgian power bottom Benoit, butch publicist Peter Dickinson, a group of kilt-wearing soldiers and some very accommodating workers. But wait – some of the other riders seem awfully peculiar: nasty old Lady Abernathy, sleazy starlet Daisy Athenasy; furtive hunk Mr Andrews; and David Rhys, who may or may not be a diamond merchant.
When Rhys is found dead with his finger cut off, Mitch turns amateur sleuth, pursuing the killer through the train’s cramped corridors and on to London’s theatres, sex clubs and pissoirs in this magical mix of comedy, mystery, and non-stop sex.
"James Lear's novels have dominated gay erotic fictions charts since publication. Just a few pages in, the secret of Lear's success becomes blindingly apparent...But it's not just the sex that keeps you reading. Lear's prose is vibrant and colorful...This isn't porn accompanied by a wah-wah guitar, this is porn to the strains of Beethoven's Ode To Joy, each vividly realised ejaculation accompanied by a fanfare and the crashing of symbols." -- Time Out London
298 pages, paperback
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