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Murder by the Book (1987) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1987 · 100 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Mel Damski
- Starring
- Eric Keenleyside, Robert Hays, Celeste Holm, Martin Neufeld, Fred Gwynne, Catherine Mary Stewart
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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