Peter Rabe - IT'S MY FUNERAL copyright 1957 # 678
Back cover:
SHE WAS A MILLION-DOLLAR CHASIS HEADING FOR A SMASH...
I'm Daniel Port, late of a powerful Eastern mob with the
queer idea I could play it straight, lay that pistol down and
sleep like a baby through the night.
Then along came Ella Anders, a delectable, husky-voiced,
Ella. Someone had acquired the wrong kind of pictures of her.
Her studio hired me to get them back -- hired me and my tough
rep. So if I took the job it was my funeral.
Hell, we all gotta go and what a lovely way to die...
The book has a lot of people getting knocked out, but there
is not much more violence. It is really a mildly diverting
book with various chracters trying to collect by blackmailing
others. There are also various doublecrosses. The maguffin,
the film, today wouldn't be given an 'R' in a movie today
much less be thought possibly damaging to an actress' career
The writing didn't seem to flow smoothly.
I guess it does have the obligatory scene. A woman who Port
thinks is the secretary walk into the office where he is
waiting. and goes into the closet presumably to change or put
something away. She comes out wearing no clothes. She never
appears again.in the book. Mark
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