Kill Your Darlings - Mallory, Bk 3 Author:Max Allan Collins Mallory's gone up from Port City, Iowa, to Chicago for a convention... and to spend some time with the mystery writer he mosts admires: Roscoe Kane. But Kane's dead and Mallory is certain that there was nothing natural about the hard-boiled writer's death. The police are skeptical -- the old man was a heavy drinker and he was found i... more »n a full bathtub -- so Mal strikes out on his own.
It's a plotline he wouldn't dare use in one of his own novels: A murder at a convention of mystery writers and fans, something so silly it would make a strong man flinch. There are enough suspects with motive, with opportunity, that Mallory finds himself staying up late to work on the case. And on Kathy Wickman, an editor whose boss is Mal's prime target. Who says you can't mix business with pleasure?« less