
This collection gathers together three acclaimed short stories —-"Jack Webb's Star," "Remaindered," and "Bumsickle" — by Edgar-nominated writer Lee Goldberg, author of the bestselling MONK and DIAGNOSIS MURDER series of original mystery novels. Here are some of the reviews that "Jack Webb's Star" received when it was originally published... "Lee Goldberg's 'Jack Webb's Star,' is a riotous caper crime with a nasty twist that starts in a traffic school class in the Taft building, where among the offenders is a hapless man ticketed for drunk driving in his wheelchair..." —Los Angeles Times "Editor Robert Randisi solicited more than a dozen familiar crime-fictionists to contribute their own Tinseltown tales to this volume. Among the best are Lee Goldberg’s clever 'Jack Webb’s Star'” - January Magazine "Veteran television screenwriter Lee Goldberg has some fun with a small screen legend in 'Jack Webb's Star'" - Booklist "...and best of all, "Jack Webb’s Star," Lee Goldberg’s hilarious contemporary tale of a struggling TV writer, his commercial actress wife, a traffic school led by an unfunny stand-up comic, and Joe Friday's star on the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame," Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. "Top billing should go to Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch story, 'Suicide Run,' and to Lee Goldberg's 'Jack Webb's Star'—the former for the detection and the latter for biggest laughs," Publisher's Weekly "Jack Webb's Star" originally appeared in the anthology "Hollywood and Crime." "Bumsickle" originally appeared in the anthology Fedora III. "Remaindered" originally appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and was a Reader's Choice Award finalist. Lee Goldberg's TV writing and producing credits also include BAYWATCH, SPENSER FOR HIRE, HUNTER, SEAQUEST, MISSING, DIAGNOSIS MURDER, MARTIAL LAW, NERO WOLFE and MONK. His books include MY GUN HAS BULLETS, THE WALK, THE MAN WITH THE IRON-ON BADGE, and SUCCESSFUL TELEVISION WRITING.
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