He's Dead--She's Dead: Details at Eleven

NY: St Martins Press, 1990. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1, Fine in protective mylar dust jacket cover. Publishers promotional letter laid in along with a " He's Dead--She's Dead: Details at Eleven" book mark. "James Sasser may have written five bestselling thrillers, but he is suitably incredulous when his Vietnam buddy and former co-worker Terry Jones asks him to discover who is sending death threats to people at his former TV station, the Republic Broadcasting System. Sasser asserts that he needs this assignment "like a hole in the head," but when a lovely receptionist is bludgeoned to death he accepts the case, and is soon up to his elbows in suspects both beautiful and powerful. Could the guilty party be a disgruntled employee dismissed after the station's corporate takeover--or could the trouble have something to do with RBS's investigation into drug cartels? A confession by newly fired newsman Dick Ainsley seems to be the answer, until he, too, is offed, leaving behind a message that cryptically identifies his killer. Before Sasser blunders his way to a solution, he is menaced and shot at, but finally confronts his culprit--in a blimp! Tucker ( The Man Who Looked Like Howard Cosell ) writes with authority of a milieu he knows well, and imbues his amateur sleuth with humor. Though his plot is cluttered at times, most of the action is fast-paced and saturated with the color of New York City and the world of TV journalism." -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.