DescriptionAt the end of a long day battling street traffic, bike messenger Jace Damon has one last drop to make. But en route to delivering a package for one of L.A.'s sleaziest defense attorneys, he's nearly run down by a car, chased through back alleys, and shot…
DescriptionWhat Tales of the City did for San Francisco, Misadventures in the (213) does for Los Angeles in this tale of a struggling screenwriter, his circle of celebrity-seeking friends, and their madcap attempts to make it in "The Biz." Misadventures? What else would you call making off with fish from Tina Louis's koi pond, calling Leeza Gibbons mid-flight to ask who does her headshots, or auctioning off Andrew Shue's chicken-wing and Heather Locklear's lip print for charity? Packed with Hollywood life lessons and more B-level celebs than you can shake a casting sheet at, Misadventures in the (213) is a brilliantly witty romp through the L.A. entertainment machine. And some of it actually happened.
DescriptionLose yourself in these wicked tales from 7 celebrated American mystery writers. A young bride suspects her husband is somehow behind a strange disappearance in Mary Higgins Clark's "Lucky Day" (narrated by Betsy Palmer). Whitley Strieber's "Vaudeville" (narrated by Roddy McDowall) tells of an aging comedienne who dies - but not laughing. And in William F. Nolan's "Pirate's Moon" (narrated by Perry King), a psychic working for the LAPD fails to predict that a stone-age cannibal cult might be terrorizing the city. Stories by Jon A. Breen, Gerald Tomlinson, Ron Goulart, and Betty Buchanan round out this chilling collection.
