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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ID like to thank the Academy, but theyve never done anything for me, so that will have to wait for another day.

Screenwriters like to say that if you want control over your work, you should write a stage play. Playwrights, however, say the way to maintain control is to write a novel. Its a question of degree, really. Theres no such thing as total control over a creative work, unless you write, edit, and publish that work yourself.

So even though it seems like I just keep thanking the amazing editor of the Double Feature Mysteries, Shannon Jamieson Vazquez, theres a reason behind it. With this novel especially, you would have read something considerably differentand demonstrably worsehad it not been for her. If you have enjoyed any of the Double Feature books so far, you have Shannon to thank, but most of you dont know her, so Ill do it for you. Thank you, Shannon. Every author should be so lucky, but that would really increase your workload.

For supporting the efforts of Elliot and his cohorts, thanks to booksellers and librarians truly worldwide. All those Ive visited have been amazing, and I hesitate to single any out for fear of inadvertently leaving someone out. So if youre a book-seller, and Ive met you, assume youre the one Im talking about. Because you are.

The authors support group keeps growing: thanks to my blogging buddies at Hey, Theres a Dead Guy in the Living Room: Janet Reid, Lynne Patrick, Sharon Wheeler, PJ Nunn, Robin Agnew, Abby Zidle, Deni Dietz, and Gordon Aalborg. And to my book tour companions, Chris Grabenstein, Ken Isaacson, and Jack Getze.

And of course my dedicated and tireless agent, Christina Hogrebe, and the many talented people at the Jane Rotrosen Agency, who look out for all the things I completely dont understand. Thank goodness for you.

But the backbone is always my family, and they make it possible for me to sit around and think of stories to write down. To Jessica, Josh, and Eve: You are the best a man could ever hope for, and far more than I deserve.

EPILOGUE

THREE MONTHS LATER

If the things you wanted to happen did not happen, think
instead of the things you did not want to happen that did
not happen.

CONFUCIUS

WEDNESDAY

THE Wrong Box (1966) and Dead Tired (this week)

SOPHIE told me to take the night off.

Taking her position as manager seriously, Sophie decided that I looked tired, and should relax for an evening. And she was right.

The repairs had, naturally, blossomed into more repairs, and were just now being completed. In addition to a new paint job for the entire theatre, except the auditorium, we now had completely new plumbing fixtures in the ladies room, a new electrical service, three newly plastered walls, new wallpaper, and a new neon sign that read REFRESHMENTS over the snack bar.

Russell Chapmans money was being put to good use, even though I hadnt actually received it yet.

We were showing The Wrong Box, a brilliant black comedy very loosely adapted from a Robert Louis Stevenson short story by Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove, fresh off A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. But I could catch it another night. Black comedy being the crowd-pleaser it is, we could expect a relatively small crowd for the classic, and Dead Tired, the touching story of a vampire with insomnia, probably wasnt going to help. Sophie, having received her acceptance to Princeton University two days before, had taken the previous night off, so she decided it was my turn tonight. No doubt the staff would have a celebration after the showings, and I was better off not knowing what direction that might take.

So now, having had a sumptuous dinner of takeout Chinese food, Sharon and I were on the new sofa in my living room, ostensibly watching His Girl Friday (in a remake of The Front Page that makes you wonder why they ever did this with two men) on the flat-screen. But in reality, she was fast asleep, head on my lap, and snoring. Her growing belly rose and fell with each gorillalike emanation from her throat. I couldnt hear the movies dialogue, but then, I pretty much have it memorized, anyway.

Id been in touch once or twice with Angie Hogencamp. She assured me that the will Russell Chapman had left would be upheld, although it was being challenged by Wally and Lillian Mayer. Susan said their case was flimsy at best, what with Lillian standing by idly while her intensely crazy sister murdered their father, and then staying silent about it, but the money for Comedy Tonight would be delayed while the courts decided. She made a reference to Charles Dickenss Bleak House, which I had to look up on SparkNotes.com. It meant the case could take a long time to resolve.

Sharon had been working longer hours at the practice, since theyd just now found a new doctor to replace Lennon Dickinson, so she was especially tired, being five months pregnant. Lennon had managed to cut a deal for a lesser sentence in his case, testifying against the loan shark in exchange for the prosecutor lowering his charges to withholding evidence.

Rosalind Russell, as Hildegaard Hildy Johnson, was just taking the corrupt sheriff down in a flying tackle when Sharon shifted a bit, and ended up facing straight up, rather than at the screen. Id have to wake her soon, so she could get home at a decent hour.

But not yet. Not just yet.

FURTHER FUNNY FILM FACTS FOR FANATICS

Sullivans Travels (1941)

Written and directed by Preston Sturges. Starring Joel Mc-Crea, Veronica Lake, and William Demarest.

Veronica Lakes character is never referred to by name. She is identified in the cast list simply as The Girl.
Preston Sturges was a playwright and inventor (he invented a kiss-proof lipstick, among other things) who moved to Hollywood to make money to finance his plays. He sold a number of screenplays, but became frustrated with the way they were directed, so he sold The Great McGinty to Paramount for one dollaron the provision that he direct it himself.
Sturges, who was named the twenty-eighth best director of all time by Entertainment Weekly, died of a heart attack in the Algonquin Hotel in 1959, while writing his memoirs, which he entitled The Events Leading up to My Death.
What Elliot was trying to say on page 10 was that the title of John L. Sullivans intended project, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, was borrowed by Joel and Ethan Coen for their 2000 update of Homers Odyssey, starring George Clooney.
At one point in Sullivans Travels, someone mentions that the novel O Brother, Where Art Thou? was written by Sinclair Beckstein, a mishmash of the names Upton Sinclair, John Steinbeck, and Sinclair Lewis, according to Sturges.
The cartoon shown to the inmates that raises their spirits is Playful Pluto (1934). Sturges wanted to use a Charlie Chaplin film, but Chaplin wouldnt give his permission.

A Night at the Opera (1935)

Directed by Sam Wood, written by James Kevin McGuinness (story) and George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind (screenplay). Uncredited writers included Al Boasberg, Robert Pirosh, George Seaton, and half the population of Culver City, CA. Some accounts include uncredited contributions from Buster Keaton, but its more likely he worked on later Marx films. Starring the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, and Chico), Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Siegfried Ruman, and Margaret Dumont.

The most commercially successful film the Marx Brothers ever made, it was also the first they made that did not include the youngest brother, Zeppo, who had left the act to become a talent agent. Which probably bolstered Grouchos opinion, when asked if the brothers would want as much money for just three, that without Zeppo, were worth twice as much.

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