Kelly Ingram is a rising star who has everything going for her - great looks, a livewire personality, enough talent to get by on, a new TV series, and a new lover. She also has an agent and a producer who hate each other, but they still manage to work well enough together to keep Kelly's career moving in the right direction. But then a friend is murdered, a harmless scriptwriter who should have been no threat to anyone. The scriptwriter's mother enters Kelly's life, a history professor named Fiona Benedict who dislikes ...
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Kelly Ingram is a rising star who has everything going for her - great looks, a livewire personality, enough talent to get by on, a new TV series, and a new lover. She also has an agent and a producer who hate each other, but they still manage to work well enough together to keep Kelly's career moving in the right direction. But then a friend is murdered, a harmless scriptwriter who should have been no threat to anyone. The scriptwriter's mother enters Kelly's life, a history professor named Fiona Benedict who dislikes everything the actor stands for. Mediating between them is Sgt. Marian Larch of the NYPD, assigned to investigate the murder. What Marian turns up is a tale of ambition and envy and betrayal going back 15 years. Kelly, Fiona, and Marian - three women who have absolutely nothing in common except the act of murder that brings them together - take turns telling the story, which ultimately demonstrates how friendship can blossom in even the unlikeliest of circumstances.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition first printing of the first novel in the Marian Larch series. A hint of spine fading to the dj. In near fine / near fine condition. 215 p. Audience: General/trade.
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Rudy Benedict , one of TV actress Kelly Ingram's old friends, is stuck as a writer of TV serials but talking about the play he's going to write. Kelly doesn't want him to spend that night with her so she sends him home with a headache remedy sample she had received in the mail that day. Then Rudy is dead. The headache pills Kelly gave him were laced with cyanide. The investigation by Marian Larch, the N Y detective assigned to the case, is initially trying to find out who wanted Kelly dead.. Fiona Benedict , Rudy's mother and a professor of history in Washburn, Ohio, flies to NY and learns the poison was meant for Kelly . She confronts Kelly angrily. Kelly's lawyer friend Howard finds everything in order except one of the paintings in Rudy's small collection of originals is missing.
The detectives conclude the poison was really meant for Rudy, but when they are making no progress in NY, Marian Larch is sent to Ohio to look at Rudy's papers . Fiona is writing the first biography about Lord Lucan, one of the four men responsible for the bloody mistake known as the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean war . Just before Marion is to fly back to NY, Fiona Benedict learns that popular historian Richard Ormsby's book, called Lord Look-on, is to be published a month before Fiona's scholarly work. Fiona comes back to NY and tries to shoot Ormsby but misses him with all 6 shots . Fiona has to be released when someone else succeeds in killing Ormsby while Fiona is in jail. Next Nathan Pinking, producer of LeFever is killed.
Cameron Enterprises is the sponser for LeFever and for Kelly's pilot movie. Ted Cameron becomes Kelly's lover. When Ted says he can no longer see her. Kelly surmises Ted is being blackmailed and asks for Marian's help. Turns out that the blackmail ineptly done by Rudy is taken over by the more skillful blackmailer Nathan Pinking. The missing painting called Man and Shadow, depicts Ted 15 years earlier. The artist Mary Rendell was killed at a party at Ted's Bel Air mansion and Ted denied knowing her, but the painting proves otherwise. Mary Rendell was Ted's lover and he got rid of her because he wanted no scandal as he was trying to be named head of Cameron Enterprises. Aunt Augusta was also fighting for control of the company at the time. So who was the ultimate blackmailer and how could it be proven?"
