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The Actor's Guide To Murder
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Author: Rick Copp
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The Actor's Guide To Murder Description
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780758204950
ISBN: 0758204957
Label: Kensington
Manufacturer: Kensington
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2003-11-01
Publisher: Kensington
Studio: Kensington
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780758204950
ISBN: 0758204957
Label: Kensington
Manufacturer: Kensington
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2003-11-01
Publisher: Kensington
Studio: Kensington
Editorial Review of The Actor's Guide To Murder
Customer Reviews of The Actor's Guide To Murder
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Witty and Fun Comic Thriller!
Review: Rick Copp surprised me.
I picked up this book on a whim after I saw a friend of mind reading 'An Actor's Guide to Greed', he really liked it and recommended I start with the first book.
Well, I couldn't have been happier, and I couldn't put the book down, I finally finished around 3am because I just had to know what was going to happen next.
I love a good book, and a good mystery, and this certainly fit the bill.
It's light hearted and easy to read, it will make you laugh certainly, but there's a few unexpected touching moments as well several heart pounding ones that had me on the edge.
Best of all, it will keep you guessing until the end, there are some great plot twists in 'Murder'.
Nicely done Rick! I can't wait to read the next two, and hopefully, many more to come!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: A sitcom mystery
Review: That's it! As I read through this in an afternoon, that's what I was thinking: this mystery reminds me of every sitcom I knew and loved, and some I didn't. It's funny, but it plays for the quick guffaw, not the introspective chuckle. And sometimes it plays for the slip-on-banana-peel howl. It's an amusement of the shallow variety--good entertainment without much involvement. And if that's your mood--it's good at what it does. And there are no commercials.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Fun but bland: A prime time TV murder mystery
Review: When a former child star actor is found dead in his own pool just after landing a juicy new role, the door of opportunity is wide open: campy fun? noir crime novel? wide-ranging Hollywood satire? Yet Actor's Guide, written by TV script author Copp, remains bland and distant. This type of thing is done much better in other books, and why not read those instead?
Where the plot should be carried by dialogue, such as in Robert Parker's much sparer and funnier Spenser mysteries, it is instead burdened by exposition and remarkably similar characters. In Actor's Guide, child star, cop, and billionairess are all cut from the same bland prime time-TV mold. Even the main plot line of murder is artificial and pointless, similar to a typical sitcom plot.
Readers looking for serious gay crime fiction should search out the late Joseph Hansen's David Brandstetter mysteries (e.g., Fadeout), John Morgan Wilson's Benjamin Justice series, or Michael Nava's work.
Campy is a lot campier if you're reading Nathan Aldyne's "Slate" or "Cobalt," or Orland Outland's "Death Wore a Smart Little Outfit," or "Death Wore the Emperor's New Clothes." Campy exposes of Hollywood/LA can be found in the hilarious "Sex Toys of the Gods" and "Glamourpuss" by Christian McLaughlin.
Potential readers of those works should be warned. Romance there seems dangerous and serious, as does love. They can contain sex scenes and crime scenes more immediate, sometimes scarier, sometimes funnier than Mr. Copp's antiseptic rendering.
Actor's Guide would play well on network or cable TV, but you, gentle reader, should set your standards a touch higher.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Funny and campy gay mystery
Review: I can't believe Hollywood is really this shallow, but wouldn't we all like to think it is? The stars are money-hungry, admiration-greedy and maximally insecure. Because he was a child star, Jarrod will never have to work again. And that might be a distinct possibility after he's photographed kissing another guy at a gay rodeo.
His lover, Charlie, is there to buffet the winds of craziness as Jarrod's life changes. Jarrod runs into an old friend, Willard, who is vying for an acting part. Willard wins it, but is the loser when he turns up dead. Jarrod investigates, and while I don't want to give anything away, just let it be said that it's a satisfying amateur-sleuth book.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Silly Sleuthing !
Review: Lots of fun and loaded with camp. You will enjoy this completely if you are a fancier of silly mysteries.
Review Summary: Witty and Fun Comic Thriller!
Review: Rick Copp surprised me.
I picked up this book on a whim after I saw a friend of mind reading 'An Actor's Guide to Greed', he really liked it and recommended I start with the first book.
Well, I couldn't have been happier, and I couldn't put the book down, I finally finished around 3am because I just had to know what was going to happen next.
I love a good book, and a good mystery, and this certainly fit the bill.
It's light hearted and easy to read, it will make you laugh certainly, but there's a few unexpected touching moments as well several heart pounding ones that had me on the edge.
Best of all, it will keep you guessing until the end, there are some great plot twists in 'Murder'.
Nicely done Rick! I can't wait to read the next two, and hopefully, many more to come!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: A sitcom mystery
Review: That's it! As I read through this in an afternoon, that's what I was thinking: this mystery reminds me of every sitcom I knew and loved, and some I didn't. It's funny, but it plays for the quick guffaw, not the introspective chuckle. And sometimes it plays for the slip-on-banana-peel howl. It's an amusement of the shallow variety--good entertainment without much involvement. And if that's your mood--it's good at what it does. And there are no commercials.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Fun but bland: A prime time TV murder mystery
Review: When a former child star actor is found dead in his own pool just after landing a juicy new role, the door of opportunity is wide open: campy fun? noir crime novel? wide-ranging Hollywood satire? Yet Actor's Guide, written by TV script author Copp, remains bland and distant. This type of thing is done much better in other books, and why not read those instead?
Where the plot should be carried by dialogue, such as in Robert Parker's much sparer and funnier Spenser mysteries, it is instead burdened by exposition and remarkably similar characters. In Actor's Guide, child star, cop, and billionairess are all cut from the same bland prime time-TV mold. Even the main plot line of murder is artificial and pointless, similar to a typical sitcom plot.
Readers looking for serious gay crime fiction should search out the late Joseph Hansen's David Brandstetter mysteries (e.g., Fadeout), John Morgan Wilson's Benjamin Justice series, or Michael Nava's work.
Campy is a lot campier if you're reading Nathan Aldyne's "Slate" or "Cobalt," or Orland Outland's "Death Wore a Smart Little Outfit," or "Death Wore the Emperor's New Clothes." Campy exposes of Hollywood/LA can be found in the hilarious "Sex Toys of the Gods" and "Glamourpuss" by Christian McLaughlin.
Potential readers of those works should be warned. Romance there seems dangerous and serious, as does love. They can contain sex scenes and crime scenes more immediate, sometimes scarier, sometimes funnier than Mr. Copp's antiseptic rendering.
Actor's Guide would play well on network or cable TV, but you, gentle reader, should set your standards a touch higher.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Funny and campy gay mystery
Review: I can't believe Hollywood is really this shallow, but wouldn't we all like to think it is? The stars are money-hungry, admiration-greedy and maximally insecure. Because he was a child star, Jarrod will never have to work again. And that might be a distinct possibility after he's photographed kissing another guy at a gay rodeo.
His lover, Charlie, is there to buffet the winds of craziness as Jarrod's life changes. Jarrod runs into an old friend, Willard, who is vying for an acting part. Willard wins it, but is the loser when he turns up dead. Jarrod investigates, and while I don't want to give anything away, just let it be said that it's a satisfying amateur-sleuth book.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Silly Sleuthing !
Review: Lots of fun and loaded with camp. You will enjoy this completely if you are a fancier of silly mysteries.