Nudist Camp Confidential

Frisco Detective Mysteries: Book 3

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Quirky Leads, Women's Adventure, Cozy Mystery, Women Sleuths, Time Travel Suspense, Historical, and Novels

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Jun 13, 2025

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Nudist Camp Confidential

Frisco Detective Mysteries: Book 3

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Sunland—where secrets run as deep as an all-over tan.

When the coffin of Hollywood psychic, The Incredible Karswell, goes missing, Chinatown PI Paloma Liu Tsong accepts the case in a most unusual assignment. Stripping to her birthday suit, she takes the job of undercover operative in the sun-soaked world of Sunland Vacation Camp, a nudist colony where secrets are as deep as the suntans.

As she navigates quirky colony rituals, eccentric nudists, and mandatory sun tan oil applications, Paloma unravels a tangled web of spies and supernatural threats. In a place where everyone has something to hide—or should—trust is as scarce as clothing. She learns the hard way that a missing coffin is the least of her worries, when a serial killer tries to bury her investigation permanently.

Set against the backdrop of a 1950s Los Angeles nudist colony, Nudist Camp Confidential is a genre-bending mix of mystery, sci-fantasy, and outre noir that will keep you turning pages until the last drop of sun tan oil is squeezed from the bottle.

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Quirky Leads, Women's Adventure, Cozy Mystery, Women Sleuths, Time Travel Suspense, Historical, and Novels

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Frisco Detective Mysteries — Book 3

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Richard Toronto is a California author and science-fiction historian best known for his detailed chronicling of the controversial “Shaver Mystery” and its central figure, Richard S. Shaver. Toronto became the leading chronicler of Shaver’s life and legacy, culminating in the groundbreaking biography, War Over Lemuria in 2013.

Rooted in pulp-era science fiction history and the preservation of esoteric subcultures, Toronto’s narrative blends biography, cultural criticism, and archival research. He documented the legacy of fringe sci-fi long before such sub-genres became academically studied.

Hollywood and Vain was the first installment of Toronto’s “Frisco Detective Mystery” series, introducing Alexander “Buster” Blade, former silent film child actor turned private eye in postwar San Francisco. Upon returning from military service, Blade sets up a detective agency and hires Paloma Liu Tsong, a Chinatown exotic dancer as his secretary. The story blends postwar noir atmosphere with Hollywood nostalgia, exploring post‑WWII social dynamics, race, and emerging detective‑fiction tropes in mid 20th century California. Its sequels are Half Past Satan and Nudist Camp Confidential.

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You Dirty Rat Books