The classic novel of sexual obsession and murder amid the star-making machinery of Hollywood in the 1950s. Only in Tinseltown could a rising screenwriter turn his girlfriend into a movie star overnight--and be framed for her murder the next night.
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The classic novel of sexual obsession and murder amid the star-making machinery of Hollywood in the 1950s. Only in Tinseltown could a rising screenwriter turn his girlfriend into a movie star overnight--and be framed for her murder the next night.
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Used book in good and clean conditions. Pages and cover are intact. Limited notes marks and highlighting may be present. May show signs of normal shelf wear and bends on edges. Item may be missing CDs or access codes. May include library marks. Fast Shipping.
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Condition: GOOD-Used with some wear from use. May include stickers on cover, missing or wear to dustcover, inside cover, spine, slight curled corners, stains, and wear to the fore edge. All orders ship via UPS Mail Innovations-can take up to 14 business days from first scan to be delivered.
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Very Good. First Black Lizard edition. Mass market paperback. Faint vertical yellow streaks (printer error? ) on a few pages, light soiling on rear wrapper, small crease on front cover, very good. A noire classic, basis for the film featuring Betty Grable, Victor Mature and Carole Landis.
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Good. No Jacket. The boards are in a very condition except for some minor marks. The title and author is handwritten on the spine. The pages are tanned, with various age related marks throughout. The text though, is still crisp and legible. Tightly bound and complete with 152 pages. [B.K. ]
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Very Good. This book is rebound. The pages are slightly tanned, but the text is still crisp and legible. Internally clean, except for some age related marks. There is a vague rubber stamp on the title page. The title and author is hand written on the spine. Tightly bound and complete with 152 pages. [B.K. ]
This is what pulp fiction is all about. For a depiction of the tawdry side of Tinseltown, only Horace McCoy's "I Should Have Stayed Home" compares in its characterization of hopeless hopefuls lurking on the fringes of glamor. Of special note is the sadistic psycho-cop, Ed Cornell. Fisher based him on the most famous pulpster of them all, Cornell Woolrich - who specialized in brutal minions of the law himself. Having worked in Hollywood as a screenwriter for years, Fisher gives his opportunistic characters an aura of authenticity. (There is a director very reminiscent of Roger Corman, for instance.)Fisher keeps up a cracking pace which doesn't afford the reader a chance to glance back in the rearview mirror; plausibility is left in the dust like roadkill and you never miss it. Highly recommended.
