Murder on the Aisle [Mass Market Paperback]

Edward Gorman (Author)

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From Publishers Weekly

Gorman's fourth whodunit will appeal to devotees of Rough Cut and his other fast, raunchy, funny mysteries. In Manhattan, TV movie critics Tobin and Dunphy trade blows before the studio audience. Later Tobin is found red-handed but innocent, pulling a knife from Dunphy's back. The fight to clear his name takes Tobin to a film school, where he meets a pretty student who shares his bed and hints at scandal involving Dunphy and his wife, Tobin's former mistress, now having an affair with her late husband's agent. There is a frighteningly comic interview between the beleaguered, bantamweight investigator and a mad giant who claims Tobin and his late partner have stolen a script from him. The author also provides a wry glimpse of would-be nabobs, wheeling and dealing at TV soirees, dull as sitcoms.
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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Ballantine Books (October 14, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345349075
• ISBN-13: 978-0345349071
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,360,367 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ed Gorman is an award winning American author best known for his crime and mystery fiction. He wrote The Poker Club which is now a film of the same name directed by Tim McCann.

He has written under many pseudonyms including "E. J. Gorman" and "Daniel Ransom." He won a Spur Award for Best Short Fiction for his short story "The Face" in 1992. His fiction collection Cages was nominated for the 1995 Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection. His collection The Dark Fantastic was nominated for the same award in 2001.

He has contributed to many magazines and other publications including Xero, Black Lizard, Cemetery Dance, the anthology Tales of Zorro, and many more.

Visit his blog at newimprovedgorman.blogspot.com

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4.0 out of 5 stars A good, but not great murder mystery, July 8, 2010

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This review is from: Murder on the Aisle (Mass Market Paperback)

Tobin and Dunphy are the co-stars of the syndicated television show "Peeps", a show where the two movie reviewers express their opinions of new movies. Gorman openly compares the show to the famous one that starred Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert. However, Tobin and Dunphy are popular because they genuinely fight, in fact they get into another fistfight while they are taping a show.
Things get even worse when Dunphy is found dead in Tobin's dressing room with a knife in his back. Suspicion naturally falls on Tobin and the investigation turns up multiple motives involving everything from professional to personal jealousy. Affairs with spouses and the threat of cancellation due to Dunphy leaving the show mean that even the dumbest cop would have to suspect Tobin.
Realizing that his only hope is to find the real killer(s) Tobin goes searching, using as his primary resource his knowledge of what the cops do in the movies. Fortunately, the list of logical suspects is small and the culprits aren't all that capable, so Tobin is able to solve the case.
As murder mysteries go, there is not a great deal of tension in this one; the climactic scene of the unmasking of the murderer is routine when compared to the rest of the story. However, Gorman does keep the story going by providing a large number of potential culprits as well as some comments about Hollywood false fronts. Specifically when referring to the females aspiring to be stars.