Duluth: Spinsters Ink, (1993). Novel introducing Tyler Jones, feminist, lesbian, writer and amateur sleuth. When she finds the body of a man in the park while walking her dog - and it turns out to be a seemingly respectable doctor, but a person she knew as abusive and sadistic to her family, suspicion falls on her. With the police apparently stymied, she gets involved in the investigation. Set in San Francisco. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-9332160920.