Ghost in the Closet A Nancy Clue and Hardly Boys Mystery

With their fearless crime-fighting, good manners and manly fashion sense, the Hardly boys are the pride of Feyport, Illinois. In A Ghost in the Closet, dark-haired, muscular Frank and his lovable kid brother Joe return from a gay trip to Europe to find that their parents - world-famous detective Fennel P. Hardly and his wife, Mrs Hardly - have been kidnapped! Even worse, so have six poodles from the Lake Merrimen Dog Show! Pals Nancy Clue, Cherry Aimless, R.N. and Police Detective Jackie Jones help the Hardly boys track down the criminals.

Mabel Maney is the author of the three books in the Nancy Clue series: The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse, The Case of the Good-for-Nothing Girlfriend, and A Ghost in the Closet. She is also the author of two parodies featuring Jane Bond (James’s lesbian twin sister): Kiss the Girls and Make Them Spy and The Girl with the Golden Bouffant. She lives in San Francisco. The Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend “America’s two greatest girl detectives as lovers? Could anything in the history of pop culture be more irreverent?” — New York Newsday “Maney flawlessly lampoons the torpid style of both children’s books and lesbian mysteries where similarly nothing happens without at least three changes of clothing and a good, hot meal.” — SF Weekly “This is good satire, done with love and nostalgia.… It’s what we’ve been waiting for: Nancy goes butch. We always knew she was.” — Lambda Book Report