Murder by the Book

Year: 1987

Runtime: 100 mins

Language: English

Director: Mel Damski

MysteryCrimeComedyThriller

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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