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In the fall of 1947, an impressionable young scholar finds herself seduced by the spirit of a Hollywood pulp detective…. This serpentine saga opens at a New England women's college, where the ever-playful Betty escapes a meddlesome narrator by slipping her friend a mickey and assuming her identity. Undaunted, the plucky storyteller adopts said friend-the literarily precocious Willie-and accompanies her to L.A. Meanwhile, the pulp-inflected ghost of Skip Ryker-a recently atomized Hollywood detective-tries in vain to solve his untimely demise. What he needs, it quickly becomes apparent, is a…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
In the fall of 1947, an impressionable young scholar finds herself seduced by the spirit of a Hollywood pulp detective…. This serpentine saga opens at a New England women's college, where the ever-playful Betty escapes a meddlesome narrator by slipping her friend a mickey and assuming her identity. Undaunted, the plucky storyteller adopts said friend-the literarily precocious Willie-and accompanies her to L.A. Meanwhile, the pulp-inflected ghost of Skip Ryker-a recently atomized Hollywood detective-tries in vain to solve his untimely demise. What he needs, it quickly becomes apparent, is a willing instrument. The ensuing collision of these disparate narratives sparks a battle royal for control of Willie's suggestible psyche-and subsequently, movie rights to the book.
Autorenporträt
M.E. Meegs began writing epic poetry while still in the cradle, though her first real recognition came only after the completion of her dramatic tragedy, "Dolly's Fourth, and Final, Crusade." Written when she was five, it chronicles the midnight adventure of a favorite doll, which ended sadly in the jaws of a neighbor's mastiff.She lives now in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, with a first-class typewriter and a middling husband who will soon be in need of a food taster if he doesn't begin showing a little more appreciation for her literary efforts.A truly loving soul, she harbors neither children nor pets-fearing the temptation to make sacrifices of them to her tetchy muse might prove irresistible.