The Rose Exterminator

by William Carney

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089696177X
• ISBN13: 9780896961777
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Everest House
• Length: 317 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Plastic surgeon by day, undisputed S/M Master by night!

Synopsis from cover: By day, Glenn Symonds was a respected Beverly Hills plastic surgeon. By night, he was the undisputed Master of Southern California's gay S/M world in the mid-1960's. Which made it all the more shocking that his dead body should be found hanging upside down,incased in leather and chains,ritually castrated. The questions were not so much WHO had done it, but how had it come to be done--and why? Scott, the only man Symonds every loved, searches for answers in this extraordinary novel. Even in death, Symonds' charismatic power over Scott compels his former lover to find the key to the surgeon's terrible fate. Scott's journey leads him through the S/M bars,specially equipped torture basements and inhabitants of the dark underside of this cult of terror,pain and pleasure. This books examines the gay S/M relationship,but also it pertains to any relationship that binds one to another with painful(no pun intended) emotional ties. good murder myster story, good backstory, excellent S/M scenes,techniques of torture,rituals,bizarre pleasures