Lone Star
$23.27
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
7 March 2017
Summary
It’s 1955, and Edna Ferber is basking in the success of her blockbuster novel Giant. Headed to Los Angeles, where director George Stevens and Warner Brothers Studio are in the final days of filming her Texas oil epic, she is looking forward to meeting Rock Hudson, Liz Taylor, and especially the young James Dean.
But there is trouble brewing. Dean, the new box-office sensation and teen heartthrob, has been accused of fathering a child with an unstable (and recently fired) extr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781464208607 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1464208603 |
| Author: | Ed Ifkovic |
| Publisher: | Sourcebooks, Inc |
| Imprint: | Poisoned Pen Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 7 March 2017 |
| Weight: | 318g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 216mm |
| Series: | Edna Ferber Mysteries |
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Critics Review
“A pure delight. ” - Jeffery Deaver, award-winning author of The Bodies Left Behind
“A pure delight. ” - Jeffery Deaver, award-winning author of The Bodies Left Behind
“A promising debut in what could be a long-running and highly entertaining series.” - Booklist
“Ifkovic handles the mystery plot competently, but the main pleasure is looking beneath the surface of the movie business to see the stars as people, in particular the doomed Dean.” - Publishers Weekly
“Ferber makes an appealing if unlikely detective and Jimmy Dean a splendidly charismatic enigma.” - Publishers Weekly
Ed Ifkovic
Ed Ifkovic taught literature and creative writing at a community college in Connecticut for over three decades. His short stories and essays have appeared in the Village Voice, America, Hartford Monthly, and Journal of Popular Culture. A longtime devotee of mystery novels, he fondly recalls discovering Erle Stanley Gardner’s Perry Mason series in a family bookcase, and his immediate obsession with the whodunit world.
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