Twilight Manors in Palm Springs: The Peculiar Case of the Follies Dancer / Twilight Manors in Palm Springs (ePub)

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! You will laugh out loud and may annoy others around you. Do not drink and read, it may come out of your nose.

Praise for Twilight Manors in Palm Springs: The Peculiar Case of the Follies Dancer

"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