Goodbye, My Lover

By: Victor J. Banis

Narrated by: Roy Wells

Twenty-year-old Dennis Eastman has a choice to make: either enter the U.S. Naval Academy, or find some other course in life. He decides to spend his final month of freedom in Los Angeles with his old mentor and lover, Lincoln Gardner, hoping to find some answers. But Linc fails to meet him at the airport, and when Dennis enters his friend's apartment in Beverly Hills, he's promptly confronted by the police: Gardner has been brutally murdered! Dennis must now search for vindication through the sleazy underground bars and gay nightclubs of Southern California, while a vile killer begins looking for young, new prey!

©1966 Victor J. Banis (P)2013 Wildside Press, LLC.

Meh

This is a good story in the sense that you can keep up with it and the characters are interesting but that's about it.

It's your typical "gay love story" young guy falls for much older man and add a murder to the mix. A story we have seen many times. And not sure when it was written because the protagonist is. very "innocent " in the way of the gay culture. Very I'm not sure what I want but I'll take everything from everywhere.

The story was a bit weak but I see this in many places, where you have a character that loves someone they die and then they move on but still think of the other person. I do don't know how close this is to reality it might be a you have to live thru it to understand it moment. I never have.

The other thing about this story is that everyone except the main character didn't know who did it. I believe by chapter two its very clear who did it. I kinda wish something else was thrown into the mix.

Many things in this story feel like that, almost incomplete like it had to end but rushed.

I still enjoyed it, it wasn't horrible but it could use a little more.

Campy good fun!

Today this reads merely like a campy mystery, which is exactly what it’s supposed to be, but when it was originally published in 1966 it must’ve been life-changing for gay readers to enjoy stories about and by gay men. The characters are normal, happily gay, and rather than renounce their sexuality by the end, become even more affirmed in their sexuality. The murder mystery is simple but well designed. Great narrator as well. Highly recommended!