Keith Hartman Books In Order

Gumshoe Books In Order

  1. The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse (1999)
  2. The Gumshoe Gorilla (2001)
  3. The Gumshoe, the Clone, and the Wannabe Vampires (2020)

Novels

  1. Congregations in Conflict (1996)
  2. The Buried Sky (2010)

Plays

  1. You Should Meet My Son! (2010)

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The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse

‘Welcome to 21st century Atlanta.

During your stay, depending on your tastes, you can cruise gay midtown I hear that the Inquisition Health Club has introduced manacles and chains to the aerobics class or check out the Reverend Senator Stonewall’s headquarters at Freedom Plaza watch out for the Christian Militia guarding it, though or attend a sky clad Wiccan sabbat by invitation only.

Avoid the courthouse, where the Cherokee have turned out in full war paint to renegotiate a nineteenth century land deal.

Also stay away from all cemeteries, at least until the police find out why someone is disinterring and crucifying corpses.

As you can tell, this is a lively novel, full of intricate plotting and engaging off beat characters. Among the latter are a gay detective, a Wiccan family, an ambitious televangelist with an eye on the White House, an artist whose medium is flesh and blood, a Cherokee drag queen and then there’s poor Benji, who would just like to make it to his fifteenth birthday, assuming the MIBS don’t get him first or his Baptist parents don’t ground him for life because his new girlfriend is a witch.

Oh yes, I enjoyed this novel. Very much. It’s a deft, unusual combination of mystery, social commentary, fantasy, and humor. I couldn’t have told you where it was going until the last chapter, but I kept reading faster and faster to find out.
P.C. Hodgell

The Gumshoe Gorilla

2024 was a rough year for Drew Parker. His car broke down, his rent went up, and his partner was kidnapped by a revenge crazed performance artist with a grant from the NEA. Worse, one of his clients had been tossed off a sky scraper after being stripped naked, smeared in human fat, and painted with occult symbols. Drew himself had broken into the headquarters of the Christian Militia on a wild goose chase, and nearly gotten his brain fried trying to get back out. And then there was the assassination attempt on that cross dressing Cherokee Shaman, which Drew might not have stopped if he’d known how much trouble it was going to get him into. And that’s not even counting the talking gorilla in the fedora. So far, 2025 isn’t shaping up to be much better. What had started as a simple case involving identical quintuplet actors cloned from the frozen corpse of a dead movie star was suddenly getting complicated. The pushy stage mom was to be expected, but the secret agents from the Cherokee nation came as a bit of a surprise, as did the lethal martial artist in the clown mask who had broken into his office. Nor had Drew planned on finding himself in the middle of a political death match between competing tele ministeries. Besides, Drew had a personal score to settle, a little matter involving a privatized version of the KGB, a ring of male prostitutes, and a vampire sex cult. Oh well, at least his Wiccan partner, Jen, is back to help him out. If he can just get her to cut back on the practical jokes and the dating advice.

Congregations in Conflict

At a time when fanatics of various stripes use faith as a smokescreen for intolerance and hate, this work, focusing on the conflict over homosexuality in the Church, argues that religious belief can also foster a spirit of compassion and understanding.

You Should Meet My Son!

What’s a proper Southern lady to do? Mae just wants to see her son Brian happily married. She’s introduced him to every eligible girl in town. But for some reason, he never seems to hit it off with them. And then Mae learns the shocking truth: Her son is gay! Oh my. They didn’t cover this in charm school. But while Mae doesn’t know much about gay men, she is sure of one thing her son deserves to be happy. And he won’t spend his life alone if she has anything to say about it. She’s gonna find that boy the perfect husband, even if she has to go up against her bridge club, her church, and the entire Daughters of the Confederacy to do it. But where does a nice Southern belle go to meet gay men? Shot in November 2009, starring Joanne McGee, Carol Goans, and Stewart Carrico.

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