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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. A serviceable plot, film star reads b-movie type book, wants to make the movie, complications ensue. Just don't think the author goes far enough with it. If you're going to do a pastiche, go all in, like in the Abyerystwth books of Malcolm Price. One crazed fan stalking a couple of people didn't make it odd enough, for my taste. Did feel author did a good job piecing everything together and tying up lose ends. ( ) This cosy is an extremely funny sendup of mysteries, pulp fiction, and Hollywood. Bankable star Nadia Wentworth becomes fascinated with the rather sado-masochistic series of books written by the late Valerian Ricardo (Sidney Gundersen to his birth relatives.) She believes that the copyright is expired, but it isn', t and her personal assistant, Melanie Oakley, probably the sanest person in her life, is soon dealing with the claims of shady lawyers, would-be heirs, and demented fans. They all converge one disastrous night at Villa Vera, Nadia's Hollywood home. http://fireandsword.blogspot.com/2007/01/revenge-of-kali-ra-by-k.html The Revenge of Kali-Ra is a mystery novel without the usual corpse. Instead of a know-it-all amateur detective, we have a diverse cast of characters each out to make the most of a long-forgotten pulp writer’s legacy. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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HTML: Nadia Wentworth is a Hollywood star. A big star. And she's so dreadfully bored on location in the South Pacific, she begins reading the first thing her assistant can dig up: a piece of gloriously bad pulp fiction by 1920s author Valerian Ricardo. Nadia soon falls under the spell of the bewitching Kali-Ra, the Queen of Doom, and knows she must portray the infamous character on the big screen. Ecstatic, she hires a famous British screenwriter to pen the script, and as word leaks out, all sorts of pests start popping up, including: Ricardo's great grandnephew; his elderly "wife"; his biographer, who also happens to be an illegitimate granddaughter; and a gaggle of obsessed Ricardo fans. When someone is murdered, there are scads of suspects, a multitude of motives, and much mayhem in this delightful, laugh-out-loud farce from one of the most accomplished novelists in the genre. .Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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