300 pages. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter yellow cloth with silver lettering to spine over yellow boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition.

In such previous titles as The Lost Keats, Faherty gave heart and soul to academic, potentially dry topics. In this series debut, he starts with a jazzier premise but is markedly less successful at making it vital. Former actor Scott Elliott now provides hired security in post-WWII Tinseltown as a major studio gears up to shoot the sequel to a blockbuster movie that strongly resembles a real film starring Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart. The screenwriter is boozy and jaded; the producer is driven and brilliant. A secret communication suggests a Communist past for the writer, and, as the House Un-American Activities Committee focuses its spotlight, Elliott is called upon to investigate. The writer dies; authorship of the valuable screenplay is quickly questioned; and hidden pasts of all key players soon matter. Elliott is an affable enough soul, but Faherty doesn't give any new spin to the material of red scares, Casablanca and period Hollywood lore that Stuart Kaminsky and George Baxt have previously put to generally good use.

Condition: Head corners bumped, remainder mark to heal end pages else a very good to fine copy in a fine jacket.

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Bookseller: The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: L4719a
Title: Kill Me Again: A Scott Elliot Mystery
Author: Terence Faherty (1954- )
Book Condition: Used - Very Good to fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0684826887
ISBN 13: 9780684826882
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1996
Pages: 300 pages
Size: Octavo
Keywords: Mystery, Espionage. Detective and Thriller
Bookseller catalogs: Literature;

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