This One'll Killya

THIS ONE'LL KILLYA By Jerry Rannow Springer McKay is a formerly successful Hollywood comedy writer whose failing career is rescued when studio mogul Buddy Brightman greenlights his pilot idea. When Springer learns that Brightman intends to steal the project out from under him, he confronts the man only to find that Brightman has been brutally murdered! Springer has no choice but to become the world's first comedy-writer detective and investigate Brightman's murder to clear himself-an investigation that will lead him on a journey of sex, drugs and violence as his raw nerve and unorthodox methods of gumshoeing make him the target of his own murder.

JERRY RANNOW began his career as an actor with guest appearances on The Beverly Hillbillies, Love, American Style, My Three Sons, The Red Skelton Hour, The Jonathan Winters Show and The Carol Burnett Show. He later made the transition to writer-producer on Welcome Back, Kotter, Happy Days, Love, American Style, Room 222, Love Boat, All in the Family, Eight Is Enough and Head of the Class-a total of over 200 produced teleplays. Jerry has won development contracts with ABC, Columbia Pictures and Twentieth Century-Fox. His books, Writing Television Comedy and Surviving Hollywood (Allworth Press) are in bookstores and at amazon.com.