The Man Who Lived by Night
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Hoagy discovers a rock god's deadly side is more than an act.
From the first time they played on the Ed Sullivan Show, Us was the hottest band on earth. For more than a decade, the group tore through the charts and indulged in an endless cycle of drugs, women, and violence, until two musicians died -- the drummer by drugs, the guitarist by a crazed gunman. Once the band was finished, lead singer Tristam Scarr retreated to the English countryside, hiding from the world until the day he hires an American to ghostwrite his memoirs.
Stewart Hoag arrives in London in the company of Lulu, his ever-hungry basset hound, to find the rock idol of his youth reduced to a wheezing, frail fortysomething. The first thing Starr tells him is that their drummer never overdosed -- he was murdered. And as their interviews progress, Hoagy learns that working for a rock star is almost as dangerous as being one.
David Handler
David Handler was born and raised in Los Angeles. He began his career in New York as a journalist, and has since written thirteen novels about the witty and dapper celebrity ghostwriter Stewart Hoag, including the Edgar and American Mystery Award-winning The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald and the newest entry The Man in the White Linen Suit. David's short stories have earned him a Derringer Award nomination and other honours. He was a member of the original writing staff that created the Emmy Award-winning sitcom Kate and Allie and has continued to write extensively for television and films. He lives in a 200-year-old carriage house in Old Lyme, Connecticut.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The plot device that puts this murder solving ghost writing biographer at the center of the action is an effective way for him to hear multiple points of view as he interviews those who surround his client's life story - the Bassett hound is also pretty wonderful but therein lies the rub - our protagonist & narrator just does not seem physically strong enough to be lifting and carrying a full grown basselope as though she were a kitten ;)