Revision of Justice: A Benjamin Justice Mystery - Tapa blanda

Investigative reporter Benjamin Justice accompanies Alexandra Templeton, the young, go-getting journalist he met in Simple Justice, to a Hollywood party where a notorious mover-and-shaker meets his end in the garden. Reprint.

, many people would kill for a movie deal, and in Revision of Justice--the scathing follow-up to John Morgan Wilson's Edgar Award-winning first novel--somebody does.

There's a Hollywood one never gets to see on Oscar night, the Hollywood of wannabes, has-beens, and never-weres.  It's this hidden Hollywood that Benjamin Justice finds when he accompanies Alexandra Templeton--the go-getting young journalist he met in Wilson's previous novel, Simple Justice--to an open house at the home of the well-known teacher of screenwriting Gordon Cantwell.  Templeton is on assignment, but the body she finds in Cantwell's garden isn't part of her story, and Justice suspects that the death isn't natural, either.

The dead man is Raymond Farr, born Reza JaFari, and as it turns out, almost anyone at the party might have wanted him dead.  The quintessential Hollywood deal maker, Farr's credentials were as phony as his name, and his scruples