A disgraced director wants a comeback, but a rival wants him dead Carson Drury's first movie was a smash hit that raised his reputation from that of boy genius to greatest director of all time. His second film, The Imperial Albertsons, was even more ambitious, but aggressive editing from the suits at RKO Pictures ruined the movie, and Drury's career with it. Now RKO is dead-killed by the upstart medium known as television-and Drury wants to buy his movie and reedit it, his way. It's up to Scott Elliott to make sure Drury lives to see the final cut. A detective working for the ultraexclusive Hollywood Security Agency, Elliott spends his days and nights helping the stars keep their private lives private. There is someone out there who will kill to keep the new version of The Imperial Albertsons from ever seeing the light of day, and Elliott will turn Hollywood upside down to find him.
"Faherty's deft plotting makes good on every little clue he plants, while pointing us and his hero toward all sorts of folks who just have to be the killer-except they aren't. In the end, we find a murderer who manages to win our sympathy and a wunderkind who, for all his arrogance and deceit, turns out to be a man of reflection and insight."
The Indianapolis Star
"The mystery pays off at the end with enough sockdolagizing surprises for a month at the bijou."
