The Soap Opera Slaughters Author:Marvin Kaye The plot of the popular daytime soap opera "Riverday" was melodramatic to be sure, but, as detective Hilary Quayle and her sometime lover Gene discover, it is not nearly as tamgled-or as deadly- as the drama its stars were acting out in real life. — First, the unclad body of the show's head writer is found on the street in front of the television... more » studio. The the director yells "Action!"- and the leading villainess is poisoned, appropriately enough, in the middle of a deathbed scene. And when the show's producer is discovered lying in a pool of blood with his head bashed in, the cast and crew are suddenly fearing for something besides the show's ratings. Namely their own lives.« less