"I met him at a party and I said, 'Why'd you stop?', and he said, 'My life was threatened, and I'm just a gossip columnist, not an investigative reporter.' So, I said, 'Would you give me your source material?' And he said, 'No, I'm afraid to, don't go anywhere near it. "Arthur Bell, a columnist for The Voice, did a series of articles in the mid-1970s about gay murders in New York City, and then he stopped," says Picano, now 74.
Click on the ORANGE Amazon Button for Book Description & Pricing. Picano believed the NYPD might have been involved in a real-life series of killings that had been covered in The Village Voice, and which served as inspiration for his book. 0 members reading this now 0 club reading this now 0 members have read this book. Unsurprisingly, the cops do not come out of it well. While writing it, Felice Picano had solicited the help of a mole in the city police force to corroborate his suspicions and conjectures. A deliciously lurid tale of a serial killer stalking the gay nightclubs of New York City, 1979's The Lure - published hard on the heels of Faggots, Dancer From the Dance, and Edmund White's Nocturnes for the King of Naples - was the first queer novel to make the popular Book of the Month Club, and its success may have rattled the NYPD.
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