For L.A.’s most uncertain private investigator (and old movie buff) Dave Beauchamp, attending the Hollywood Celebrity Expo should have been Heaven. But it wasn’t, particularly when the show’s stars started turning up dead in highly unusual and personal ways. Before long, Dave finds himself struggling to make sense out of a bizarre case that appears rooted in an unsolved string of murders from the 1980s. Both grippingly suspenseful and laugh-out-loud funny, Dead and In Person! demonstrates that in the real La-La-Land, vintage Hollywood and vintage secrets can sometimes go hand-in-hand in disturbing and deadly ways. <P>PRAISE FOR MICHAEL MALLORY’S “DAVE BEAUCHAMP” SERIES:<P> “When author Michael Mallory doesn’t have the readers smiling at his clever asides and observations, he’ll have them laughing out loud.” –Robert S. Levinson, bestselling author of The Stardom Affair.<P> “Take a befuddled Hollywood detective whose very name most people can’t pronounce correctly, and set him on the trail of a murderer…and you have the making of a darkly comedic romp.” –Robert Masello, TV writer and bestselling author of The Jekyll Revelation.<P> “You get two for the price of one, a funny romp and a mystery, with a little Hollywood dish thrown in. What more you could ask for?” –Paul D. Marks, Shamus Award-winning author of White Heat.
