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Three Ways to Die [Kindle Edition]

Lee Goldberg
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"Lee Goldberg's Jack Webb's Star is a riotous caper crime with a nasty twist..."  --The Los Angeles Times

"Remaindered is brilliant! Hilarious, suspenseful, with booksigning sequences that induce PTSD... bravo!" -- Barry Eisler, bestselling author of "Hard Rain."

"Top billing should go to Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch story, Suicide Run and to Lee Goldberg's Jack Webb's Star--the former for the detection and the latter for biggest laughs"
--Publisher's Weekly

"Remaindered is one of the wiliest short stories I've read in many years. Really laughed my ass off when I read it. Lee Goldberg at his very best,"" -- Ed Gorman, author of "Trouble Man."

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This collection gathers together three wildly acclaimed short stories --Jack Webb's Star, Remaindered, and Bumsickle  -- by Edgar-nominated writer Lee Goldberg, author of the bestselling MONK and DIAGNOSIS MURDER series of original mystery novels.

In Jack Webb's Star, a struggling reporter comes up with a bizarre scheme in traffic school with an ex-con in a desperate attempt to reinvigorate his love life. Jack Webb's Star originally appeared in the anthology Hollywood and Crime.

In Remaindered, a once-famous novelist embarks on a self-financed book tour through middle America to save his career...and ends up having a fateful encounter. Remaindered originally appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and was a Reader's Choice Award finalist. It has also been reprinted in the Top Suspense anthology.

In Bumsickle,  a homeless woman freezes to death, unlocking troubling memories for a weary cop and a powerful Chief of Police. Bumsickle originally appeared in the anthology Fedora III.

Here's just a sampling of the critical acclaim for these three unforgettable stories:

"Lee Goldberg's 'Jack Webb's Star,' is a riotous caper crime with a nasty twist that starts in a traffic school class in the Taft building, where among the offenders is a hapless man ticketed for drunk driving in his wheelchair..." --Los Angeles Times 

"Editor Robert Randisi solicited more than a dozen familiar crime-fictionists to contribute their own Tinseltown tales to this volume. Among the best are Lee Goldberg's clever 'Jack Webb's Star'" - January Magazine

"Veteran television screenwriter Lee Goldberg has some fun with a small screen legend in 'Jack Webb's Star'" - Booklist 

"REMAINDERED is terrific," Ken Levine, Emmy-award winning writer/producer of "M*A*S*H" and "Cheers."

"REMAINDERED is great facial exercise for writers.  It makes us laugh and cry at the same time,
" Thomas Perry, bestselling author of "The Informant"

".
..and best of all, "Jack Webb's Star," Lee Goldberg's hilarious contemporary tale of a struggling TV writer, his commercial actress wife, a traffic school led by an unfunny stand-up comic, and Joe Friday's star on the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame," Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine.

"The tale is as well-turned as you'd expect from a pro and it takes imaginative flight from a reality that'll be recognized by anyone who has ever faced the world over a stack of books at a signing table," Stephen Gallagher, bestselling author and writer/creator of the TV series "The Eleventh Hour."

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Top billing should go to Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch story, 'Suicide Run,' and to Lee Goldberg's 'Jack Webb's Star'--the former for the detection and the latter for biggest laughs," Publisher's Weekly


Product Details

  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 136 KB
  • Print Length: 56 pages
  • Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
  • Publisher: Adventures in Television (May 31, 2009)
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B002BSHMD2
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Lending: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Lee Goldberg is THE story-teller, January 12, 2010
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It's a pity this collection isn't much longer and with more stories, but it is, after all, called Three Ways to Die, so we'll have to make due with three stories.

Once again, Lee Goldberg outdoes himself with these unique, fascinating stories, and at least one has a surprise ending (and I'm almost never surprised by an ending!) and that tickles me no end.

If you enjoy well-written, entertaining stories with realistic characters, realistic dialogue, and 100% entertainment, then Lee Goldberg is the author for you!

It's a terrible shame that all of Lee Goldberg's books aren't available on Kindle. Hint HINT, Kindle-Amazon. I'd buy them all, and I know I'm not the only one who would.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars All Three Were Great!, July 14, 2009
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Jack Webb's Star:

After I got into it a bit, I thought it was a prelude to "The Walk". I later realized that it was either an 'afterward', an alternate reality, or it just had a similarity in it with Christopher Walken's part in both.

Either way, it was a terrific short story.

Bumsickle:

This one seemed shorter than the others, but it didn't need to be long to make its point. Good twist.

Remaindered:

I liked this one best. It called to mind Stephen King's "Misery".

Mr. Goldberg definitely knows how to craft a short story. Each one leaves you satisfied, yet wanting more.

Length: 1290 locations (It took me about 45 minutes to read them all)

Rating: R for content and some language

Favorite Quote: "I like cat books, especially the ones where they solve murders. If you're smart, you'll write a cat book." This was said to an author who had had a book on the New York Times Bestseller List.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fun reading, January 4, 2011
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This was fun reading. It's a welcome break to read some short well written stories. I wish there was a book full of them.
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