BEST PERFORMANCE BY A PATSY
Language: English
Published by E. P. Dutton, New York, 1991
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used



Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.Rare Book Cellar
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Author's first book. A Shamus Awards' nominee for best first P. I. Novel, 1992. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket.; Goodman-Bradley Mystery; 20 x 20 x 20 Inches; 352 pages.
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- Title
- BEST PERFORMANCE BY A PATSY
- Author
- Cutler, Stan
- Publisher
- E. P. Dutton, New York
- Publication year
- 1991
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0525933174
- ISBN 13
- 9780525933175
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing.
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Reviews
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
The very day over-the-hill Hollywood p.i. Rayford Goodman--famous for 15 minutes 25 years ago when he sent porno king Danny Pagani (instead of the police suspect, beloved comedian Dubie Dietrich) to the pen for snuffing megastar Rita Rose--is scheduled to meet his new partner, gay ghostwriter Mark Bradley, he gets beaten up by a thug who warns him not to write his projected tell-all life story; soon after, his borrowed Rolls is blown up and a promised informant is killed in a copycat murder that Pagani seems to have an alibi for. Who's the real killer so anxious to kill the book: Rita's crazy-religious mother, her unsavory ex, her mysterious son, actor/financier Harry Light, studio chief R. Symington Lefcourt--or maybe Dietrich or Pagani? Though Ray and Mark try too hard to be funny, they're usually funny anyway. The main question posed by the knockabout plot--which spins from Jamaican gunmen to crooked cops to the West Coast Mafia and moves through a zillion suspects (all guilty of something, and most introduced over overpriced lunches) to an unexpected and surprisingly toothless murderer--is: What's left over for the promised sequel? -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
An unlikely but ultimately successful combination of sleuths occurs when young, mostly out-of-the-closet gay writer Mark Bradley meets biography subject Ray Goodman, the older and once-famous Hollywood private eye who solved the fabulous 1963 Rita Rose murder case. After encountering the unexpectedly paroled "murderer," the pair reexamine the old murder, bump into the assorted Hollywood stereotypes involved in the case, uncover more than a few well-hidden skeletons, and find the real murderer. After a somewhat tiresome beginning, Cutler establishes the partnership, chases around the Hills, and delivers some great comic lines. An author (who has a sequel in the works) worth watching. For larger collections.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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