Kill Me Again: A Scott Elliot Mystery
by Terence Faherty (1954- )
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good to fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0684826887
- ISBN 13
- 9780684826882
- Seller
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About This Item
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. Signed by the author. 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,signed on the title 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 #
- BOOKS004719
- Title
- Kill Me Again: A Scott Elliot Mystery
- Author
- Terence Faherty (1954- )
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good to fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- 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
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- Literature;
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