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The fourth thriller from this American author-lawyer. It is a tale of plagiarism and general sleazy underhandedness in the rock and roll music business. The author's previous novels are "Needles", "High Crimes", "Mecca" and "The Dance of Shiva".
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William Deverell’s first novel, Needles, won the $50,000 Seal Award, and, since then, he has published one work of non-fiction, Fatal Cruise, and ten further novels, including Trial of Passion, winner of the Hammett Prize for literary excellence in crime writing and Canada’s Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel. Deverell created the popular CBC Television series Street Legal and recreated its characters in a novel by that title. He is a founding member and past-president of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, a member of PEN Canada, the Screen Writers Guild, and has twice been chair of the Writers’ Union of Canada. He winters in Costa Rica and spends his summers on Pender Island in B.C.
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Plagiarism in the rock music industry is the subject of attorney-and-screenwriter Deverell's fourth comic suspense novel. The book is already a best seller in mass-market paperback in the author's native Canada, and it resembles Elmore Leonard's Bandits in complexity of plot and slickness of dialog. Oliver Gulliver is a small town lawyer in northern California with a minor midlife crisis and a major family problem--Gilley, his future son-in-law, is a scruffy, alcoholic rock star whose career is on the skids. Our hero initiates Gilley's lawsuit against a major record company when his love ballad for Gilley's teenage daughter is stolen and subsequently hits the top 40 with suggestive new lyrics. Gulliver duels and deals with Tinseltown's music executives in a highly publicized legal wrangle that ends in murder. The book is rich in background detail on the industry. Recommended for larger collections of mystery/popular fiction.
- Joyce Smothers, Monmouth Cty. Lib., Manalapan, N.J.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Joyce Smothers, Monmouth Cty. Lib., Manalapan, N.J.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0749301910
- ISBN 13 9780749301910
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