Previously released as Lonely at the Top. The time is just before the ebook publishing craze when hardcover books were king and the book business as ruthless as it was exciting. Imagine the highly respected CEO of a giant New York publishing house being blackmailed by one of his own editors. Visualize that same editor found murdered in his office a few days after the blackmail demand. Imagine, too, the mounting evidence that gradually surfaces implicating the CEO. But things are not always what they appear to be. Halfway through the novel the reader learns who the real killer is. The reader also sees that the killer is getting away with murder. It's a roller-coaster ride as two NYPD ...
Previously released as Lonely at the Top.
The time is just before the ebook publishing craze when hardcover books were king and the book business as ruthless as it was exciting. Imagine the highly respected CEO of a giant New York publishing house being blackmailed by one of his own editors. Visualize that same editor found murdered in his office a few days after the blackmail demand. Imagine, too, the mounting evidence that gradually surfaces implicating the CEO. But things are not always what they appear to be. Halfway through the novel the reader learns who the real killer is. The reader also sees that the killer is getting away with murder. It's a roller-coaster ride as two NYPD detectives struggle to find out what the reader already knows. In the course of their investigations the detectives encounter additional corpses and a twist that you won't see coming. Venues include Manhattan, Westchester County, NY, Paris, and Los Angeles.
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Meet the Author
Richard Scott is a retired editor, writer, and publisher, having been president and publisher of the David McKay Company and president and publisher of Fodor's Travel Publications. He's also been managing editor of American Bookseller and Bookselling this Week. In the 70s Mr. Scott was co-host with Isaac Asimov, Brendan Gill and Nat Hentoff of a talk show called In Conversation. The show was syndicated throughout the U.S.
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Previously released as Lonely at the Top.The time is just before the ebook publishing craze when hardcover books were king and the book business as ruthless as it was exciting. Imagine the highly respected CEO of a giant New York publishing house being blackmailed by one of his own editors. Visualize that same editor found murdered in his office a few days after the blackmail demand. Imagine, too, the mounting evidence that gradually surfaces implicating the CEO. But things are not always what they appear to be. Halfway through the novel the reader learns who the real killer is. The reader also sees that the killer is getting away with murder. It's a roller-coaster ride as two NYPD ...