While trying to buy back the rights to his second movie, director Carson Drury realizes that his life is in danger if he refilms and rereleases the movie, and it is up to private eye Scott Elliot to find out who wishes to silence the director. 12,500 first printing.
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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Last time out, Scott Elliott-WWII hero, failed actor and security guy-waded through Kill Me Again, a lengthy exercise in hackneyed movie trivia. The subject matter then was a murder set around the filming of a sequel to a film a lot like Casablanca. Although the old actor dying from cancer on the edge of this new narrative is Bogartish in the extreme, readers instead should think Orson Welles. It's 1955, and Carson Drury, a onetime movie wonderkid who is now exiled somewhere in Indiana, is reshooting a new ending to his flawed masterpiece, The Imperial Andersons. Drury is bent on resurrecting his reputation and staying one jump ahead of the mysterious accidents that dog his steps, accidents that start with falling cameras and seem destined to end with a killing. The trouble here, beyond the fact that Faherty doesn't deliver enough Tinseltown insider stuff to tax any serious old film buff, is that the essential killing doesn't appear until the middle of the book. By then, the pedestrian references and cardboard persona of Elliott will have most likely worn down all but the most determined reader. Elliott, a hunk and a family man, is a nice enough guy, but his character needs more attentive prose than it receives. Fans of the author's Owen Keane series, notably the fine works like The Lost Keats and Deadstick, are in for a letdown here.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Hollywood sleuth Scott Elliott (last seen in Kill Me Again, LJ 5/1/96), a war hero and one-time actor, works for a company that provides security for movie studios. It is 1955, a time when filmmakers blame their ills on the nascent television industry. One in particular, Carson Drury, tries to stage a comeback by reshooting one of his early films. Elliot must save the film and its crew from sabotage, cross-burning threats, and attempted murder. Strong atmosphere, a somewhat hard-boiled hero, and an evocative look at contemporary Hollywood names, events, and places. For most collections.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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