THE STORY: Matt Galt, Scottish ex-pat and private detective with a middling business, lives and works in Stratford primarily because he is an aficionado of the Bard. At the start of this novel he is hired by antiques dealer Timothy Barton to discover who has been sneaking rats into his shop. Galt spends the night in the shop, has a frightening encounter with the vandal and a small army of rats. The next day he delivers the news to Barton. Barton is not satisfied. He tells Galt he knows who is responsible but he needs better proof and that means literally catching the culprit. The case leads Galt into the gay subculture where he meets a coterie of theater people, antique dealers and two shifty owners of a gay S&M leather shop. His dogged investigations also lead to the discovery of an ugly white supremacist organization that is harassing immigrants. THE CHARACTERS: Galt is described as "43 years old going on 50" on the first page of Feedback (1974). He also has "delicate long hands of…
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