Mavis Bone and the Fledgling Killer

BP Smythe
Works of: Fiction

`Mavis Bone and the Fledgling Killer` by B.P.Smythe is a 98,000 word count psychological thriller.
The book opens with a serial killer, whose evil roots were planted from a traumatic childhood. He makes an agenda to rob and kill women for financial gain. His crime spree efforts are checked and eventually foiled by Mavis Bone, a fifty-year-old Australian, lesbian, private investigator. And with her lover, a German secretary Gertrude Stick, they operate the SW19 Wimbledon Broadway based, Mavis Bone Detective Agency.
Mavis and Gertrude live above the agency office, and share the top two flats. The walls of Mavis’s flat are adorned with pictures of Mario Lanza. Being a true fan she has all his old records. Gertrude’s flat is full of Nazi memorabilia. In her teens she was a member of the Hitler youth.
Using a Russian motorcycle and sidecar nicknamed Lenin, for their mode of transport. They often turn up at a crime scene wearing hell’s angel’s leathers and Nazi helmets. Mavis’s secretary had recently purchased the storm trooper helmets from a Nazi memorabilia website. Included with her delivery was a giant swastika patterned bedspread and a black satin pillowcase set, all decked out with swastikas and portraits of the Nazi leaders. Through the week, Gertrude rotates the pillows so she can take it in turn to sleep on the faces of Hitler, Goebbels and Himmler.
Chasing the `Fledgling Killer` through his ingenious methodical killing spree, is hands on Mavis Bone, and she’s not afraid to get them dirty. This involves the death of her prostitute philandering husband, and a problem client that could send her secretary to prison for a war crime.
Dealing with her own personal issues through the years, Mavis has blood on her hands and sees it justifiable, even though the police wouldn’t. Her gender choices, along with her racist opinionated views, were moulded in her hard-Australian outback childhood.
Mavis Bone is a real believable Ozzy crude character, who has a preference for strap-on lesbian sex and snorting Charlie – a cocaine habit she picked up in Columbia as a student while backpacking around South America during her early twenties
Mavis and Gertrude are lovers and share a bond of tortured childhoods. They suffer each other and are comparable to Holmes and Watson in their crime fighting gay relationship; while using sound racist logical reasoning and drug taking to solve crimes.