Alyson Classics Library Business hasn't been so good at Daniel Valentine's bar, especially since more and more of the clientele is turning up dead - strangled with neckties. The police are so baffled - so Valentine and his crime-solving partner, Clarisse, set out to find the murderers and safe Valentine from bankruptcy. Leather boys, jaded priests, faded queens, and a deceptively sweet dominatrix - there is no end to the suspects...or the victims.