His Lordship's Arsenal

Christopher Moore; Christopher G. Moore

ISBN 10: 1555472281 / ISBN 13: 9781555472283

Published by Guild Press, New York, 1986

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Guild Press, 1986. Mass market paperback. Rare first paperback printing of Christopher G. Moore's first novel. Very Good. Interior pristine. Spine straight and very tight with two light creases. Edgewear to covers. Dog-ear to rear cover. 227 pages. Guild Press was a Washington, D.C. publishing house that catered almost exclusively to a gay male audience and played a major role in expanding the legal protections for gay publications against obscenity laws in the United States. Content: Matthew Burlock is a brilliant, eccentric judge, faced with the facts of a bizarre ritual murder. In the run-down Delorse Hotel, two men are found half-eaten by flames: one tied to a cross, the other tied up on the bed, with African lioness masks laid next to him. The police say it is a homosexual murder but Burlock disagrees. Slowly; a strange connection between Burlock's exotic past and the murder is revealed. Somewhere in the family history of the international gun trade, his father's mysterious identity and his radical ex-girlfriend lies the answer to the bizarre puzzle.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: His Lordship's Arsenal
• Publisher: Guild Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555472281
• ISBN 13: 9781555472283
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition: First Paperback Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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About the Author

CHRISTOPHER MOORE is curator and research historian for the New York Public Library's world-renowned Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. He is coauthor of "The Black New Yorkers: 400 Years of African American History,"" Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Celebration of Black Prayer," and "Santa and Pete: A Novel of Christmas Past and Present "(which became a CBS TV movie starring James Earl Jones). A specialist in African-American history, Moore wrote and produced the History channel's award-winning television special "The African American Burial Ground: An American Discovery," He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children. Visit the author's website at www.fightingforamerica.org.