"A 1955 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud is a fantastically expensive car, especially in the pristine condition of the one owned by Muriel Cantrell. Living in a luxury apartment building on Central Park West, the delicate, sweet 75-year-old woman is a neighbor of Merilee Nash, the beautiful movie star, and Stuart Hoag, whose first book was a sensation but whose career crashed when he became involved with drugs and alcohol. Divorced ten years earlier, Hoagy...

Blue-blooded, scotch-ad-gorgeous Cameron Sheffield Noyes is the new enfant terrible of American letters. Writer of the wildly best selling first novel Bang, Noyes is the media's latest darling and the current ringmaster of New York's literary circus. Between photo shoots for Vanity Fair and interviews for The Paris Review, he's having a blast trying to outdrink Dylan Thomas, outbrawl Ernest Hemingway, and outsnort the entire brat pack. There's only...

"In this new installment of the Edgar award-winning Stewart Hoag mystery series, the ghostwriting sleuth investigates a trail of murder amidst Hollywood's rich and famous. Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag hasn't written any fiction since his debut novel rocked the literary world of the 1980s and then left him with a paralyzing case of writer's block. Since then, he's been reduced to ghostwriting celebrity memoirs. But his newest project could have him diving...

"Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag is walking on cloud nine after a meeting with his editor, Norma Fives, where she predicts his new book is sure to establish him as the next great American author. It has been years since he has even dreamed of such success after a crippling case of writer's block limited his literary aspirations to ghostwriting celebrity memoirs. But his happiness is short-lived when at his next meeting with Norma she asks for his help in discovering...

"After six glorious weeks of hard work on his long-overdue second novel, celebrity-ghostwriter Stewart 'Hoagy' Hoag has hit a crossroads in his plot. He thinks a change of scenery will do him good--and he knows just the place. His ex-wife, the actress Merilee Nash, has offered him the use of her idyllic Connecticut farmhouse, while she's away shooting a movie in Budapest. Hoagy and his beloved basset hound Lulu settle in for a few days' rest and relaxation....