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02403aam a2200373 i 4500 001 0CC5841601A811EDB8EAEDD844ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220712010056 008 210910s2022 miu e 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1612942318 020 $a 9781612942315 035 $a (OCoLC)1267686803 040 $d SILO 100 1 $a Stevenson, Richard, $d 1938- $e author. 245 10 $a Knock off the hat : $b a Clifford Waterman gay Philly mystery / $c Richard Stevenson. 250 $a Bywater Books first edition. 264 1 $a Ann Arbor, MI : $b Amble Press, $c 2022. 300 $a 224 pages ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a Clifford Waterman gay Philly mystery ; $v 1. 520 $a "It's steaming August in post-war Philadelphia. Clifford Waterman, dishonorably discharged from the Army for "an indecent act with a native" in Cairo, can't go back to his job as a police detective and is struggling to make a go of it as a private investigator. He's soon hired to help a young man caught in a gay bar raid who can't afford the $500 bribe a corrupt judge demands to make a "morals charge" go away. In the blink of an eye, an entire gay neighborhood is suddenly under siege, and Waterman has to find out why the cops, courts, and the city powers that be have unleashed a wave of brutal gay-bashing--astonishing even for that time and place. Kept moving by Jim Beam, bluesy jazz, and a stubborn sense of outsider's pride, Waterman makes his way through Philadelphia's social, political, and financial swamp to rescue a few unlucky souls and inflict at least a bit of damage to the rotten system that would lead to the Stonewall rebellion in New York City 22 years later" -- $c Back cover. 600 10 $a Waterman, Clifford $c (Fictitious character) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Private investigators $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Gays $x Crimes against $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Gays $z Pennsylvania $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Corruption $z Pennsylvania $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Philadelphia (Pa.) $x History $y 20th century $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Detective and mystery fiction. $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a Gay fiction. $2 lcgft. 800 1 $a Stevenson, Richard, $d 1938- $t Clifford Waterman gay Philly mystery ; $v bk. 1. 941 $a 3 952 $l YCPD572 $d 20230214011226.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20220909011455.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20220712011512.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0CC5841601A811EDB8EAEDD844ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search