Someone's death Author:Charles Larson Producer Nils-Frederik Blixen is putting together a new television series called "Staff at Bay." Stagg is a broken-nosed, slope-shouldered detective who will have one half hour every week in which to solve a crime. — When it comes to solving real-life crimes, Blixen should be so speedy. His casting director, Joanna Redfern is suspected of murderi... more »ng an ex-boyfriend who became "ex" in a violent--and very public--argument. Blixen is certain Joanna will be cleared, but then two cops stumble onto the scene of a second murder and find Joanna, her hands slick with blood, bending over the body....
While Joanna goes off to jail, Blixen goes into action. After a third and seemingly senseless murder, the pieces begin to fall into place. It takes a disturbing actor's cliche', some snippets cut out of a fan magazine, and an old Peter Lorre movie to tell Blixen finally who the murderer is.
Someone's death combines a cleverly executed plot, an inside look at the television industry, a dash of sophisticated humor, and some intriguing minor characters. Among them is an old charmer named Boom-Boom who used to dance nude on a drum in the Paris follies and has a hearing problem, and fourteen-year-old Heidi with all the charm of a spitting cobra. All of this adds up to a first-class suspense novel.« less