Greed and Stuff

by Jay Russell

It's the story of a man named Marty. Once he was a very busy TV sitcom star. Then he kind-of burned out and became a washed-up private eye. Now Marty Burns is back on television, playing a P.I. and trying to make rehashed "Hawaii Five-O" scripts sound convincing. While he's waiting to find out if his show is renewed (it's not doing well with the 18-34 year-olds), Marty stumbles across an enigma involving the classic noir film The Devil on Sunday,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312261683
• ISBN13: 9780312261689
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

BRILLIANT...!!!

This is honestly one of the BEST books I have ever read...... PERFECT in every way...!!! WHAT a talent

Another great installment in this series

Although he is a current TV star on Fox' "Burning Bright", Marty Burns knows how quickly an actor can fall off the producer radar screen. As a former child star of Salt & Pepper, Mary could attain no work once the show left the air. As an adult he became a private investigator and his two media visible cases (see CELESTIAL DOGS and BURNING BRIGHT) actually got him his present job.Marty plays cards once a week with the same group of Hollywood men. However, this time screenwriter Emerson Hall asks Marty to stop and talk at an after hours dive. Reluctantly, Marty agrees although he has never done anything with Emerson except play cards. Emerson is writing the script for a remake of "Devil on Sunday" in which his father wrote the original script. Emerson believes that an important scene was cut from the film now owned by Fox. Marty obtains a screening and finds the movie interesting but disjointed. He learns that an actress who died during the filming was Emerson's mother and Emerson's father was a front for the real screenwriter. When Emerson turns up dead, an apparent suicide, Marty believes someone killed him and he owes his card playing partner the truth.The third Marty Burns Hollywood investigative novel retains the freshness of its predecessors by combing hard- boiled noir with satirical social commentary. The story line never slows down even for Marty's asides that actually add to the plot. GREED AND STUFF has the right stuff as Jay Russell continues to prove that his rise to the top of the sub-genre is not a short stay.Harriet Klausner