Kritzerland is proud to present Bruce Kimmel’s latest book:

VEGAS CAN BE MURDER

Harry Stearns returns! It’s February of 1976. Harry, former actor agent, then literary agent, then private detective, is once again happily retired—going to the office daily, reading the trades, lunching at the Hamburger Hamlet, sparring with his secretary Bernice, and listening to his beloved opera recordings—until he gets a call from Las Vegas lounge singer Buddy DeMarco. A decade earlier, one of Harry’s writer clients had written Buddy’s jokes and patter which Buddy is still doing at the Las Vegas Hilton. Buddy is receiving threatening notes, each more ominous than the last, and he implores Harry to take the case. Harry hates Vegas and has no intention of taking this or any other case there, but he goes as a favor to Buddy, fully intending to say no. Before returning home, however, Harry in turn gets a threatening note, warning him not to get involved. Of course, Harry takes the case. What follows is a colorful, often hilarious, frequently baffling, mystery as Harry goes down the rabbit hole list of suspects, each of them someone Buddy has seriously mistreated at one time or another. As the notes become more threatening, they know the clock is ticking before whoever is behind them follows through on the threats. Taking place in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, Vegas Can Be Murder features guest appearances by the likes of Liberace and Frank Sinatra, Bernice running amok in the casino, and Harry remaining doggedly on the case. BACK FLAP This is Bruce Kimmel’s twenty-sixth book. In addition to the other twenty-five, Mr. Kimmel has written for film, television, and the stage, was a popular actor on TV all through the 1970s and early 1980s, and has directed for film, television, and the stage. He wrote, co-directed and starred in the hit cult movie, The First Nudie Musical. He co-wrote the original story for the hit 1998 film, The Faculty, which is about to get a remake. He also wrote and directed the acclaimed, award-winning web series Sami, which is streaming on Amazon Prime. In addition to all that, Mr. Kimmel is a Grammy-nominated record producer, having produced over 180 albums. His record label, Kritzerland, has released over 400 CDs of theater and film music. He also has the longest-running daily blog in the history of the Internet, having never missed a day since late November of 2001. In his spare time, he can be seen wandering around aimlessly saying, “What spare time?”

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“We all do it. We're reading a book, and we stop to check how many pages we've read. Bruce Kimmel's VEGAS CAN BE MURDER is one novel where you'll find that you've breezed through many more than you would have assumed. In fact, there's a good chance you'll have finished this mystery before you even think to check how you're doing on pages. For a book that belongs in the category of noir, it sure is colorful, taking us back a half-century to Sin City and L.A. when the former wasn't as sinful and the latter as smoggy. Opera buffs find as many references to opera buffa and opera seria as Kimmel's clever red herrings. Never mind ‘What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas’; what happens in VEGAS CAN BE MURDER will stay in your memory for quite some time.”
—Peter Filichia, Broadway Radio 

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VEGAS CAN BE MURDER is priced at $27.00, plus shipping.

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