Down-and-out reporter Benjamin Justice attends a Hollywood party at the home of a veteran screenwriting teacher, during which a young writer is murdered in the garden. In an attempt to get the story that will put him back on his journalistic feet, Justice decides to investigate all the partyers who may have wanted the writer dead.
Nominated for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, "Simple Justice" introduces Benjamin Justice, a hard-drinking West Hollywood crime reporter who's down on his luck. After reluctantly joining a murder investigation, he falls in love, but with the wrong man--the man who becomes his prime suspect.
After being hired by Charlotte Preston to write a rebuttal to a sleazy expos on her late father, journalist Benjamin Justice discovers Charlotte dead in her room with a needle in her arm. Determined to discover the truth, what Justice finds links an unlikely group of men to a history of twisted perversion and crimes almost too horrible to believe.
Disgraced journalist Benjamin Justice finds himself enmeshed in two old deaths--a 1950s movie star and the black man lynched for the murder--as well as a new murder, that of a gossip columnist who promised to reveal "explosive" new information.
In this mystery set in 1965 Los Angeles, bandleader/amateur sleuth Peter Damon and his sax-playing bandmate Hercules Platt investigate the disappearance of the band's new trumpeter.
Benjamin Justice, disgraced journalist and former Pulitzer Prize winner, finally publishs his autobiography which calls forth a series of threats against himself and everyone he loves.
In this mystery set in 1965 Los Angeles, bandleader/amateur sleuth Peter Damon and his sax-playing bandmate Hercules Platt investigate the disappearance of the band's new trumpeter.
When he arrives in San Francisco, in 1963, bandleader Philip Damon still mourns his wife, whose murder has never been solved. The elegant charity ball where he's performing sets the stage for another killing--this one involving a dead ringer for his late wife.
Ex-reporter Benjamin Justice is trying to come to terms with his HIV status, no job, and no hope. Then the daughter of a onetime Hollywood hunk offers him a job to ghostwrite a payback book after a sleazy bio links the actor to a shadowy world of sinister perversion and blood-chilling crimes. When she's found dead with a needle in her arm, Justice ...
Several years ago, journalist Benjamin Justice forfeited a Pulitzer when it was discovered that he had fabricated the subjects of his prize-winning piece. Now, he's trying to get a fresh start in life--by mining his past. Having received a significant advance from a publisher to write his autobiography, Benjamin intends to spare no details- ...
Writers for stage, screen and publication who seek to add real-life drama and absorbing detail to their writing will applaud this new reference series. Behind the Scenes places thorough information on many exciting professions readily at their fingertips, complete with the details that will make writing believable and thrilling -- even for the ...
Benjamin Justice's new assignment as a TV documentary writer takes a dire turn when the producer disappears from his hotel room in a trail of blood. As Justice delves into his predecessor's notes and follows his tracks, he enters a world of pleasure and peril--and deadly secrets. By the Edgar Award-winning author of "Simple Justice".
The latest in the Lambda Literary Award-winning mystery series finds disgraced journalist Benjamin Justice discovering a link between a writer's death and a controversial condo development.
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Edwin Lanham; Joseph Marshall; Albert S. Wilson; Morgan Lewis; Bruce Marshall; John And Ward Hawkins; James P. O'Donnell;...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Curtis Publishing
Date Published: 1950
Description: Very Good. Curtis Publishing 1950 Light wear to cover, clean tight bright text. Includes: Short Stories-A Gentleman and a Fool by Joseph Marshall; The Flying Privateer by Alber S. Wilson; Well of Anger by Morgan Lewis; Reverend Brown's Escapade by Burce Marshall. Novelette-Criminal's Mark by John and Ward Hawkins. Articles-The Secret Flight That Doomed the Luftwaffe by Jemes P. O'Donnell; The Cities of America, Albuquerque by Neil M. Clark; He Made the Difference for the Dodgers by Harold ... read more
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