We Interrupt This Broadcast

Beck, K. K.

ISBN 10: 0892966424 / ISBN 13: 9780892966424

Published by Mysterious Pr, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1997

About this Item

DJ appears new, Hard cover with clean, tight, white, pages appears never read. First printing Nov. 1997 Ingenious, comic mystery novel.

Seller Inventory # 6005314

Bibliographic Details

• Title: We Interrupt This Broadcast
• Publisher: Mysterious Pr, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0892966424
• ISBN 13: 9780892966424
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

The author of the Jane da Silva mysteries follows Alice Jordan, an abandoned wife, who lands a job as a sales representative for a classical music radio station that doubles as an escort service run by her recently murdered predecessor.

Reviews

Beck takes a break from her overgalvanized Jane da Silva series (Cold Smoked, 1995, etc.) for a plunge into the even more frenetic world of KLEG-AM, Seattle's dying also-ran classical radio station. New advertising account executive Alice Jordan, who's cadged the job from Caroline Payne Parker, the station's much-married co-owner and nominal manager, arrives on the scene to discover that the program director is a militant vinyl Luddite, the receptionist a megalomaniac, the evening announcer a has-been romeo, the overnight announcer (``Teresa, Queen of the Night'') an audiotaped misterioso nobody's ever laid eyes on, and the other owner, Caroline's brother Franklin, a resentful hothead who's ready to sell the whole kit and caboodle to the first psycho who comes up with half a million dollars. About the only person around with any business sense is ad sales manager Ed Costello, and he's dead--folded up in a Murphy bed, presumably by somebody who didn't take kindly to his experiments in prostitution and blackmail. So Alice, whose main qualification for amateur sleuthing is that she's not nuts--``weepy and neurotic, maybe, but not nuts''--ends up solving the murder, though, in keeping with the zany spirit of the enterprise, that's far from her intention. A tightly wound farce whose dim view of the station dweebs and ditzes is pursued with comical consistency to the very last line. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

The rather sleazy quarters of a Seattle classical music station provide the focus for the latest concoction from the author of Death in a Deck Chair (Ivy, 1987). When Alice Jordan, recently deserted by her husband, lands a job at KLEG, she discovers a body in the back room. Easy reading.
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