Brian and Stéphane strike again! As if they haven't caused enough trouble already! Everyone's favorite politically incorrect couple, Brian and Stéphane, embark on yet another zany adventure in Twilight Manors in Palm Springs: The Peculiar Case of the Follies Dancer. It begins when Stéphane's birthday "treat "goes awry. While having breakfast in a Mexican restaurant in Rancho Mirage, a skeleton falls out of the wall onto their table. It's the beginning of a treasure hunt to uncover the secrets of a silent movie star from the 1920s. Along the way, the duo wreaks havoc and mayhem everywhere they go, including a Hells Angels wedding, a zoo, a funeral, a silent film festival, the Antiques Roadshow, and a lecture on "How to make a beautiful corpse.' New characters help or hinder our heroes in their quest. Among them are Nigel and Simon, two British make-up artists, Krystal the stand-up comedienne, and a Christian lady with a potty-mouthed parrot. Twilight Manors in Palm Springs: The Peculiar Case of the Follies Dancer is book three in the hilarious Brian and Stéphane series. WARNING! Y ou will laugh out loud and may annoy others around you. Do not drink and read, it may come out of your nose. "Brian and Stephane, Sukie de la Croix's bickering amateur sleuths of a certain age, are back at it in Twilight Manors in Palm Springs: The Peculiar Case of the Follies Dancer . As in their previous outings, they are hilarious, outrageous, scatological and decidedly politically incorrect as they traverse Palm Springs and environs in a twisted treasure hunt that begins when a skeleton topples out of the wall of a restaurant and onto their table. Fans of their earlier adventures will be delighted by the new book that, once again, casts a broad and satiric, but not unaffectionate, eye at their adopted hometown and its eccentric inhabitants." -Michael Nava, author of the Henry Rios mysteries. In Twilight Manors in Palm Springs: The Peculiar Case of the Follies Dancer , St Sukie de la Croix once again takes us on a laugh-out-loud roller-coaster ride of hilarity. The novel is brilliantly witty and endlessly clever with an acute sense of the absurd. De la Croix is the love child of Monty Python, P.G. Wodehouse, and the Hardy Boys. -Daniel M. Jaffe, author of The Grand Sex Tour Murders A fatal faceplant into an omelet, a tumbling skeleton, an ostrich ambush, and severe digestive cramping...all in the first ten pages? Clearly, you have been taken into the wicked hands of St. Sukie de la Croix, whose third Twilight Manors in Palm Springs Mystery, The Peculiar Case of the Follies Dancer, is as uproarious as the first two in the series. Like a hyped-up Nick and Nora Charles, bickering life partners Brian and Stephane hotfoot it all over Riverside County in search of treasure that belonged to a murdered showgirl with Sapphist secrets. To solve the case, the duo must face down scorching temperatures, a biker wedding, Barry Manilow, and a randy llama with only one thing on its mind. Equally gifted at the extended comic set-piece and the throwaway quip, St. Croix has created another thoroughly dizzy, thoroughly filthy, and thoroughly marvelous read. -James Magruder, Vamp Until Ready For three decades, St Sukie de la Croix, 70, has been a social commentator and researcher on Chicago's LGBT history. He has published oral-history interviews; lectured; conducted historical tours; documented LGBT life through columns, photographs, humor features, and fiction; and written the book Chicago Whispers (University of Wisconsin Press, 2012) on local LGBT history. St Sukie de la Croix, the man the Chicago Sun-Times described as "the gay Studs Terkel," came to Chicago from his native Bath, England, in 1991. He has had columns in local publications or online news and entertainment sources such as Chicago Free Press, Gay Chicago, Nightlines/Nightspots, Outlines, Blacklines, Windy City Times, and GoPride.com, as well as numerous others outside the city. In 2008 he was a historical consultant and an on-screen interviewee for the WTTW television documentary Out & Proud in Chicago. In 2005 and 2006, he had two of his plays, A White Light in God's Choir and Two Weeks in a Bus Station with an Iguana, performed by Chicago's Irreverence Dance & Theatre Company. A popular and engaging lecturer, he has spoken at various venues from Chubb Insurance to Boeing and from Horizons Gay Youth Services to the Chicago Area Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. His crowning achievement came in 2012 when the University of Wisconsin published his in-depth, vibrant record of LGBT Chicagoans, Chicago Whispers: A History of LGBT Chicago Before Stonewall. With a foreword by noted historian John D'Emilio, the book received glowing reviews and cemented de la Croix's deserved position as a top-ranking historian and leader. In 2012 de la Croix was inducted into the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame. Two years later, he moved to Palm Springs, California, and in 2017 publis