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A Plot for Murder: A Classic Radio Murder Mystery
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781515426776
Publisher: Black Curtain Press
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 206
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A radio writer invents the perfect murder show-then discovers someone may be using his scripts as a blueprint for the real thing. Bill Tracy is an ex-newspaperman trying to turn a clever mystery idea into a radio success, but fiction stops feeling safe when the murders he imagined begin stepping off the page. What began as a gimmick becomes a deadly game of timing, pattern, and nerve.
Fredric Brown brings his usual speed, wit, and structural cleverness to this twisty mid-century mystery, mixing newsroom instincts, show-business satire, and murder-plot mechanics into a sharp little engine of suspense. The result is lighter and more playful than pure noir, but still a strong Black Curtain fit: murder, media, deception, and a killer who understands the entertainment value of fear.
First published as Murder Can Be Fun, this novel later appeared under the title A Plot for Murder, a title that usefully foregrounds both the radio-script hook and the real-world danger at the center of the story.
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