Three Ways to Die
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Author(s)Lee Goldberg
ISBN / ASIN1456481878
ISBN-139781456481872
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Sales Rank1,477,519
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
This collection gathers together three wildly acclaimed short stories --Jack Webb's Star, Remaindered, and Bumsicle -- by Edgar-nominated writer Lee Goldberg, author of the bestselling MONK and DIAGNOSIS MURDER series of original mystery novels.
In Jack Webb's Star, a struggling reporter comes up with a bizarre scheme in traffic school with an ex-con in a desperate attempt to reinvigorate his love life. Jack Webb's Star originally appeared in the anthology Hollywood and Crime.
In Remaindered, a once-famous novelist embarks on a self-financed book tour through middle America to save his career...and ends up having a fateful encounter. Remaindered originally appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and was a Reader's Choice Award finalist. It has also been reprinted in the Top Suspense anthology.
In Bumsicle,  a homeless woman freezes to death, unlocking troubling memories for a weary cop and a powerful Chief of Police. Bumsicle originally appeared in the anthology Fedora III.
Here's just a sampling of the critical acclaim for these three unforgettable stories:
"Lee Goldberg's 'Jack Webb's Star,' is a riotous caper crime with a nasty twist that starts in a traffic school class in the Taft building, where among the offenders is a hapless man ticketed for drunk driving in his wheelchair..."Â --Los Angeles TimesÂ
In Jack Webb's Star, a struggling reporter comes up with a bizarre scheme in traffic school with an ex-con in a desperate attempt to reinvigorate his love life. Jack Webb's Star originally appeared in the anthology Hollywood and Crime.
In Remaindered, a once-famous novelist embarks on a self-financed book tour through middle America to save his career...and ends up having a fateful encounter. Remaindered originally appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and was a Reader's Choice Award finalist. It has also been reprinted in the Top Suspense anthology.
In Bumsicle,  a homeless woman freezes to death, unlocking troubling memories for a weary cop and a powerful Chief of Police. Bumsicle originally appeared in the anthology Fedora III.
Here's just a sampling of the critical acclaim for these three unforgettable stories:
"Lee Goldberg's 'Jack Webb's Star,' is a riotous caper crime with a nasty twist that starts in a traffic school class in the Taft building, where among the offenders is a hapless man ticketed for drunk driving in his wheelchair..."Â --Los Angeles TimesÂ
"Editor Robert Randisi solicited more than a dozen familiar crime-fictionists to contribute their own Tinseltown tales to this volume. Among the best are Lee Goldberg's clever 'Jack Webb's Star'" - January MagazineÂ
"Jack Webb's Star is a darkly funny story about a heist that could only happen in Hollywood. The author of TV's brilliant, but obsessive-compulsive detective Monk is on top of his game," Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Veteran television screenwriter Lee Goldberg has some fun with a small screen legend in 'Jack Webb's Star'" - BooklistÂ
"Remaindered is terrific,"Â Ken Levine, Emmy-award winning writer/producer of "M*A*S*H" and "Cheers."
"Remaindered is great facial exercise for writers. Â It makes us laugh and cry at the same time,"Â Thomas Perry, bestselling author of "The Informant"
"...and best of all, "Jack Webb's Star," Lee Goldberg's hilarious contemporary tale of a struggling TV writer, his commercial actress wife, a traffic school led by an unfunny stand-up comic, and Joe Friday's star on the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame," Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine.
"The tale is as well-turned as you'd expect from a pro and it takes imaginative flight from a reality that'll be recognized by anyone who has ever faced the world over a stack of books at a signing table," Stephen Gallagher, bestselling author and writer/creator of the TV series "The Eleventh Hour."
"Top billing should go to Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch story, 'Suicide Run,' and to Lee Goldberg's 'Jack Webb's Star'--the former for the detection and the latter for biggest laughs," Publisher's Weekly
"Jack Webb's Star is a darkly funny story about a heist that could only happen in Hollywood. The author of TV's brilliant, but obsessive-compulsive detective Monk is on top of his game," Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Veteran television screenwriter Lee Goldberg has some fun with a small screen legend in 'Jack Webb's Star'" - BooklistÂ
"Remaindered is terrific,"Â Ken Levine, Emmy-award winning writer/producer of "M*A*S*H" and "Cheers."
"Remaindered is great facial exercise for writers. Â It makes us laugh and cry at the same time,"Â Thomas Perry, bestselling author of "The Informant"
"...and best of all, "Jack Webb's Star," Lee Goldberg's hilarious contemporary tale of a struggling TV writer, his commercial actress wife, a traffic school led by an unfunny stand-up comic, and Joe Friday's star on the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame," Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine.
"The tale is as well-turned as you'd expect from a pro and it takes imaginative flight from a reality that'll be recognized by anyone who has ever faced the world over a stack of books at a signing table," Stephen Gallagher, bestselling author and writer/creator of the TV series "The Eleventh Hour."
"Top billing should go to Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch story, 'Suicide Run,' and to Lee Goldberg's 'Jack Webb's Star'--the former for the detection and the latter for biggest laughs," Publisher's Weekly
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