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The Double Vice: The 1st Hidden Gotham Novel

Start your Hidden Gotham journey with the book that started it all!

The Blind Tiger: The 2nd Hidden Gotham Novel

Flappers, gangsters, and a swearing parrot, oh my!

The Devil Card: The 3rd Hidden Gotham Novel

Dive into Hidden Gotham's Halloween mystery!

The Big Timer: The 4th Hidden Gotham Novel

Did you think that El Train needed her own mystery? I did, too!

Hidden Gotham Shorts

These short stories are fast, quick reads!

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Mar 20, 2026
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Mar 23, 2026
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Apr 3, 2026
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284 Broadway
Cambridge, MA

Hidden Gotham Mingle
Apr 9, 2026
Orleans Hotel - Dauphine Room
LGBTQIA+ Meet Up
8 - 9pm
4500 W. Tropicana
Las Vegas, NV

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Hidden Gotham Audiobooks

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About Chris Holcombe

Chris Holcombe is the author of the Hidden Gotham series, LGBTQ+ noir that readers call “Honest-to-goodness pulp fiction at its gayest and most glamorous!”

Set in the Queer clubs of 1920s NYC, Hidden Gotham exposes and explores that fabulous yet gritty life during The Decade That Roared.

Chris’s work features engaging characters, whip-smart dialogue, and page-turning plots. He also infuses real Queer history and at least one “seriously, WTF?!” Prohibition factoid into every book. All written in an immersive, atmospheric writing style.

He is currently hard at work on his next book, and he asks that you send gin and chocolate for encouragement.