Revision of Justice: A Benjamin Justice Mystery - Hardcover

Wilson, John Morgan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385482353 ISBN 13: 9780385482356

Publisher: Doubleday, 1997

Synopsis

There's a Hollywood one never gets to see on Oscar night, the Hollywood of wannabes, has-beens, and never-weres. It's this hidden Hollywood that Benjamin Justice finds when he accompanies Alexandra Templeton - the go-getting young journalist he met in Wilson's previous novel, Simple Justice - to an open house at the home of the well-known teacher of screenwriting Gordon Cantwell. Templeton is on assignment, but the body she finds in Cantwell's garden isn't part of her story, and Justice suspects that the death isn't natural, either.
The dead man is Raymond Farr, born Reza JaFari, and as it turns out, almost anyone at the party might have wanted him dead. The quintessential Hollywood deal maker, Farr's credentials were as phony as his name, and his scruples were as nonexistent as his credits. Justice - ever the investigative journalist, however reluctant - begins to nose around, and unearths a tangled web of relationships that lead him, finally, to the killer. Along the way he also reawakens a part of himself, the part he had kept buried, or preserved in alcohol, ever since the death of his lover from AIDS seven years before.

About this title

About the Author

John Morgan Wilson, who lives in West Hollywood, California, is a widely published freelance journalist and the author of <i>The Complete Guide to Magazine Article Writing,</i> published by Reader's Digest Books.  He teaches writing at UCLA Extension and works as a writer for television and film.  His first Benjamin Justice mystery, <i>Simple Justice,</i> won the coveted Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best First Novel of 1996; he is now at work on his third.

From the Inside Flap

, many people would kill for a movie deal, and in <i>Revision of Justice</i>--the scathing follow-up to John Morgan Wilson's Edgar Award-winning first novel--somebody does.<br><br>There's a Hollywood one never gets to see on Oscar night, the Hollywood of wannabes, has-beens, and never-weres.  It's this hidden Hollywood that Benjamin Justice finds when he accompanies Alexandra Templeton--the go-getting young journalist he met in Wilson's previous novel, <i>Simple Justice</i>--to an open house at the home of the well-known teacher of screenwriting Gordon Cantwell.  Templeton is on assignment, but the body she finds in Cantwell's garden isn't part of her story, and Justice suspects that the death isn't natural, either.<br><br>The dead man is Raymond Farr, born Reza JaFari, and as it turns out, almost anyone at the party might have wanted him dead.  The quintessential Hollywood deal maker, Farr's credentials were as phony as his name, and his scruples

Edition details

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385482353
• ISBN 13: 9780385482356
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 341