Janice Law talks about her amateur sleuth, Francis Bacon
There's a great interview with Janice Law over at Sleuthsayers.org! As part of their "Meet My Character" series, they 
asked Law about her detective, Francis Bacon, and his relationship to the real-life painter. Here's an excerpt:
He’s both real and fictional in that, yes, there was a real Francis Bacon, Anglo-Irish artist, creator of images of screaming popes and the now ultra valuable triptychs. There is also my character, whom I think of as FB, who resembles the original but who, after three novels, has begun to take on a distinct personality, doubtless better known to me than to the original. ...
Someone described the real Bacon as “camp as an army base and tough as old boots,” a nice summation for a very complex character. I’ve tried to keep some that complexity for FB as well. For instance, if you know that he was a promiscuous gay man fond of rough trade, you form one impression. When you then learn that he lived with his adored old nanny until her death, you revise the picture more than a little bit.
There's more over at Sleuthsayers, where Law talks at length about her series of novels starring the painting detective (most recently Moon Over Tangier). The second novel in the series, Prisoner of the Riviera, won the Lambda award for Best Gay Mystery.
Check out Law's author page here.
