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    Kill the Mother!: A Dave Beauchamp Mystery Novel
    Kill the Mother!: A Dave Beauchamp Mystery Novel
    Kill the Mother!: A Dave Beauchamp Mystery Novel
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    Kill the Mother!: A Dave Beauchamp Mystery Novel

    By Michael Mallory

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    Even by Hollywood standards, Nora Frost is the stage mother from Hell. Her futile drive to turn her talentless twin sons into child superstars has left figurative bodies strewn throughout Los Angeles. But after Nora hires hapless young private detective Dave Beauchamp to investigate a letter threatening the brothers, the body count begins to mount. It's up to Dave (a recovering lawyer and serious movie buff) to discover why people connected to Nora's crusade are turning up dead, and why someone has kidnapped the twins. The real question, though, is whether Dave is up to the job, even with the unsolicited "advice" he constantly receives from the old-time movie stars sounding off in his head! KILL THE MOTHER! is a laugh-out-loud mystery adventure that spotlights some of the wackier corners of Hollywood, as seen through the eyes of a new, unique P.I., whose motto is: "If you can’t be insane in L.A., where can you?"
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWildside Press
    Release dateJul 29, 2013
    ISBN9781479408696
    Kill the Mother!: A Dave Beauchamp Mystery Novel
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    Michael Mallory

    Michael Mallory is the author of the novel Murder in the Bath as well as some one hundred short stories for both adults and children, many of them featuring Amelia Watson and/or Sherlock Holmes. A Derringer Award winner and two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Mallory has also written three non-fiction books on pop culture subjects and nearly 400 magazine and newspaper articles.

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