The Hummingbird Summer

Collection of two gay-themed short stories set in New York City in the 1960s. In "The Hummingbird Summer," typewriter salesman Henry Maitland takes advantage of the summer exodus from New York City to snatch a few private moments with his married lover Pete Kingsley, an affair doomed by era and circumstance. In "Sukiyaki," Japanese-American private eye John Tamaru looks into the death of a worker in a Chinese restaurant, only to find out that first impressions are deceiving.