Prime Suspect #3: Silent Victims

The drag queen named Vera Reynolds swayed onstage, singing "Falling in Love Again." And a sixteen–year–old boy lay in Vera's fire–engulfed apartment—very, very dead. He was a "rent boy," a sex–for–hire street kid who catered to the tastes of special customers. It was the kind of murder Soho's Vice Squad saw often. But the influential do–gooder who was a prime suspect in this one made the young boy's death different—a ticking bomb able to blast open the nasty, secret lives of politicians, jud…