Murder by the Book
Year: 1987
Runtime: 100 mins
Language: English
Director: Mel Damski
Writer D. H. Mercer becomes so absorbed in his own material that his hard‑boiled private‑eye creation, Biff Deegan, appears to him as an incessant hallucination. Determined to replace Biff with a more civilized detective, Mercer is pulled into an actual mystery involving art fraud, murder and a beautiful woman in peril.
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