The third crime novel featuring actor-murderer Philip Fletcher. It sees him at an all-time low - until he's offered a highly-paid film role in a somewhat improbable costume drama. There must be a catch, and after several near-fatal "accidents" Philip thinks he knows what it is.
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Brit Philip Fletcher is the archetypal actor--egotistical, insecure, and vice-ridden, none of which keeps him from playing his favorite role, that of amateur sleuth, when the situation demands. In Shaw's latest, Philip is drinking too much and not working enough. Then he is offered a part in a new Kenneth Kilmaine film. Philip is thrilled, even though he hasn't a clue who Kilmaine is. When he shows up on the set, Philip finds himself surrounded by has-beens, never-weres, and hangers-on, not a real actor or director in the bunch. Matters worsen quickly as Philip becomes the intended victim of a series of would-be fatal "accidents." With the help of his new protege, a young burglar called George Washington, Philip unearths the culprits and wins the girl--er, make that girls. The strengths of this delightfully entertaining mystery are the humor, which ranges from rapier-sharp wit to guffaw-inducing burlesque, and the larger-than-life characters who populate the pages. It's fabulous, darling! Emily Melton
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An offer of a œ100,000 for only eight weeks of work in Kenneth Kilmaine's film Midnight Rider? It seems too good to be true--even if producer Kilmaine's the auteur of such epics as Dr. Dildo and the Busty Bimbos and director Wayne Schlesinger got kicked off his last film when he accused the crew of being space aliens--and of course it is. Not only will Philip Fletcher have to endure the hatred of screenwriter Harvey Goldman every time he fights to improve a mangled line, and the unbridled jealousy of Marvin J. Loudwater II, consort to brainless leading lady Shelley Lamour, but somebody's trying to kill him, too--some poor devil who obviously doesn't know that Philip, aided this time by a burglar with theatrical aspirations, is no slouch at homicide himself. Philip's fifth is lightsome and literate, but distressingly devoid of the real malice that gave The Villain of the Earth (1995) such an edge. -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Not enough anti- in the hero,
By frumiousb "frumiousb" (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (TOP 500 REVIEWER)
This review is from: Dead for a Ducat (Hardcover)
I tried to like this book-- the theme was interesting enough. But in the end it was too theater-y and the main character just didn't have enough bite. Too bad.
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