Author: George Axelrod Year: 1952 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery, Crime
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ISBNs: 9780857683076 9780843957723 0857683071 0843957727 |
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From the Academy Award nominated screenwriter of Breakfast at Tiffany's andThe Manchurian Candidate comes a breathtaking story of murder and mischief'¦ It's the story of a big-game hunter, fisherman, fighter, visitor to Cuba, drunk, and Nobel Prize-winning author, recently deceased of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, whose final unpublished manuscript could fetch a mint'¦ It's the story of a short, balding man with a high-pitched voice and a vicious wit, whose cocktail parties are the talk of the town, especially when a beautiful woman dies at one of them'¦ It's the story of Hollywood's sexiest starlet, who manages to conceal things even when she's wearing nothing but a towel'¦ '¦and it's the story of Dick Sherman, intrepid New York publisher, on the trail of the literary find of the century ' and the killer who will stop at nothing to keep it from being found.
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