Michael Bowen

Screenscam: a Rep & Melissa Pennyworth Mystery (Rep & Melissa Pennyworth Series) Michael Bowen

Rep Pennyworth faces the client from hell: Charlotte Buchanan contends her 1997 novel is the basis for the 1999 film, Contemplation of Death. She wants to sue. Rep digs in, aided by his literature-addicted wife Melissa, and files suit. By return mail comes a death threat, a grisly (and gristly) version of ?Hold Your Tongue.? Research shows the film?s director to be Aaron Eastman, Hollywood legend, whose Red Guard should have been a box office and critical smash but fell oddly short. Eastman contends the Oscar balloting was sabotaged. He and Rep talk and, bit by bit, the outline of a bizarre scheme to destroy the credibility of Red Guard?and Eastman?emerges. Hoosiers Rep and Melissa aren?t prepared for what happens next. The first in the Rep and Melissa Pennyworth Series.