Some Like It Hot-Buttered (A Double Feature Mystery) - Softcover

Cohen, Jeffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 042521799X ISBN 13: 9780425217993

Publisher: Berkley, 2007

Synopsis

All Elliot Freed wanted to do was to make people die laughing. But he didn't mean it literally.

The dead guy in Row S, Seat 18, is no joke. Elliot Freed, recovering writer, socked all his savings-and the alimony from his ex-wife-into the Comedy Tonight movie theater, never suspecting it would become a murder scene. And murder can't be good for ticket sales...

Death by popcorn was the cause. Poisoned popcorn. To the chagrin of the police, Elliot takes to his bike to start his own investigation. A growing attraction to a beautiful detective, the discovery of a DVD pirating operation, and one missing employee later, Elliot's still waiting for the punch line. But this one might knock his theater-and Elliot-out for good...

About this title

About the Author

Jeff Cohen is a freelance writer, reporter and screenwriter whose work has been seen in the New York Times, developed by the Jim Henson Company and won the Barry Award for best short story. He lives in New Jersey with eight million close friends.

From Publishers Weekly

Introducing Elliot Freed, rescuer and proprietor of an abandoned New Jersey movie theater, Cohen fires up the gag reel for a new tongue-in-cheek mystery series sure to please fans of his Aaron Tucker mysteries (As Dog Is My Witness). After selling his novel to Hollywood, movie-obsessed Freed sinks the windfall into a beloved single-screen relic. When the lights go up after a showing of YoungFrankenstein, it appears customer Vincent Ansella has had his last laugh-what at first looks like a fatal heart attack is soon revealed to be murder-by-popcorn. After the police shut down his theater, Freed decides to help investigate (if only to quicken the reopening), getting some help from his amicable, alimony-paying ex-wife and an alluring police detective. When Freed's projectionist, a young film student, suddenly goes missing, he's billed suspect number one by the police, but Freed has other suspicions. Ruffling feathers and getting violent warnings, Freed solves the mystery and earns his amateur sleuth credentials, promising more comic adventures to come. Cohen develops his lively characters almost as effortlessly as he delivers the jokes-and the occasional guffaw-and manages to sneak in some suspenseful twists besides. (Oct.)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Berkley
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 042521799X
• ISBN 13: 9780425217993
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304