Sex and Violence, a Love Story

A HIGHLY ORIGINAL MURDER MYSTERY NOVEL WRITTEN IN AN ENTIRELY EPISTOLARY FORMAT Turtle Point Press's first murder mystery is a novel in the form of letters written by Wynn O'Leary to his brother Joel, a bop trumpet player who died of a heroin overdose. The author of this witty and unabashedly politically incorrect novel is a professor in the English department of Columbia University, where some of the sex and all of the violence happens. It's an enclosed world with its own customs and denizens. The time is the late 80s. Cultural theory and gender politics reign supreme, smoking is still permitted in the cafeteria and - unfortunately for O'Leary - Viagra is but a twinkle in a scientist's eye...