Four novels — and one bonus book — of hard-boiled crime, sex, mystery and betrayal set in glittering Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1960s.
COME FEED ON ME by Morton Cooper
“A brilliant expose of a famous TV comic.” Pensacola News-Journal
Joey French is a hugely successful TV star who seems to have everything… money, fame, and women… but it’s an illusion. Off-camera, his life is falling apart, his raging, inner-demons threatening his sanity and his soul, while a pack of ravenous star-suckers close in, desperate to take whatever piece of him they can.
TWO DEATHS MUST DIE by Richard Himmel
“Richard Himmel was an outstanding writer… likely to please readers of well-written hardboiled crime who are also comfortable with some romance and human drama in their stories.” The Paperback Warrior
A big movie star’s dark and sordid past in a stag movie comes back to haunt her — it’s up to lawyer Johnny Maguire to keep it buried, without getting buried himself.
CARLOTTA MCBRIDE by Charles Gorham
“A beautifully written study of an extraordinary young woman – a world-famous actress who is handsome, intelligent, unusually literate, and a profound and dedicated drunk.” Los Angeles Times
Who is Carlotta McBride? In the swank nightclubs of New York, Hollywood and Paris, she is the beautiful and brilliant star of stage and screen… but in the dark, lurid dive bars and dark alleys of those same cities, she is promiscuous and self-destructive, slowly killing herself with alcohol, drugs, and risky sex.
STOP OVER by Morton Cooper
When the good people of Greenleaf, Pennsylvania condemned Fred Nichols’ mother for her adultery, and wept insincerely over her grave, he left town in disgust and wound up in Hollywood, where he remade himself as a fixer for the stars. Now tan and rich, he’s making his fat living keeping a rock star actor Tommy Hatcher’s wild lifestyle and insatiable desires from creating headlines. But now Tommy’s new movie, The Cool and the Haunted, is shooting in Greenleaf, and Fred will have to confront his past to protect the superstar…and save himself.
BONUS NOVEL:
THE LUSTING DRIVE by Ovid Demaris
Guy Hill is pure evil, a washed-up movie star who returns to his hometown, seduces & marries the owner of the furniture company that is the life blood of the entire community, and then he murders her. Now he’s the King of the town, holding everyone in the thrall and terror of his lusting drive for sex and power. His only adversary is his one-armed brother, the local Sheriff, who is powerless to stop him…until the car Guy’s “missing” wife is pulled from a local resevoir. Now Guy’s grip on power begins to erode, exposing the dark passions, deep corruption, and the lusting drives of everyone in the town.
Charles Gorham, Morton Cooper, Ovid Demaris, Richard Himmel /
Anthologies, Crime Fiction
