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A Murder in Hollywood

A Murder in Hollywood

by Michael Crichton , John Lange

2026 244 pages 418 currently reading 10,344 want to read
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<b>From Michael Crichton</b><br /> <b>Creator of </b><b> <i>Jurassic Park</i> </b><b>, </b><b> <i>ER</i> </b><b>, </b><b> <i>Twister</i> </b><b>, </b><b> <i>Rising Sun</i> </b><b>, and</b><b> <i> Disclosure</i> </b><br /><br /><b>Writing as John Lange</b><br /><br /><b>Comes a new Hollywood mystery thriller, originally written in 1973 by Crichton but never before published, that will keep you guessing until the very end.</b><br /><br />In the glitz and decadence of 1970s Hollywood, an era when sex and drugs are readily available on any movie set, the writer of the next Western blockbuster, <i>Bloodrock</i>, has just been found dead in his motel bathtub. Now publicist Harvey Jason is desperately trying to keep the project on track while the famed Harlow Perkins, a brilliant and ruthless investigator, begins to unravel the mystery and hunt the killer down.<br /><br />From scorching-hot desert locations to sleazy motel bars, the members of the cast and crew—each one with a very dark secret of their own—will send this case deeper and deeper into a maze of confusion and shadows until the shocking truth is revealed.<br /><br />Will the murderer be found?<br /><br />Or will the true identity of the killer turn out to be just another Hollywood illusion?