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THE RONALD REAGAN MURDER CASE is a 60,000-word comedy mystery
novel, set in Hollywood in January 1945, which introduces George
Tirebiter, then a 25 year-old radio star, in his first "celebrity
detective" role. Two murder mysteries engage George in this novel.
In one, he discovers that the apparent murder of Ronald Reagan's
movie double could have been an early CIA double-cross, fabricated
by Bill "Wild Bull" Casey! Could our beloved ex-President actually
be his own stand-in? Tirebiter also follows a long covered-up
killer's trail back to 1920 and solves the scandalous death of a
prominent silent film director. A popular nudist camp and a famous
blue movie figure prominently in the solution to this screen story,
while the Golden Age adventure involves cross-dressing, army
intelligence, glamorous movie stars and two live radio comedy
broadcasts. The second one, which stars Lt. "Dutch" Reagan in a
tribute to Air Force Bombers, is interrupted by gunfire, and not
from the sound-effects man. In 1945, Tirebiter was riding high on
CBS network radio. He and his wife, one-time glamorous showgirl
Lillie Lamont, starred in the popular Friday night comedy-and-music
program, "Hollywood Madhouse." At the same time, George's career as
a movie director at Paranoid Pictures had plateaued with yet
another B programmer, "First WAC in Tokyo." A survivor of the
Tarnished Age of Hollywood, George was blacklisted in the Fifties
and forgotten for years, only to make a comeback during the
Underground Sixties and actually run for Vice President of the U.S.
in 1976 on the Nat'l Surrealist Party ticket. George "Porgie"
Tirebiter was made famous by The Firesign Theatre in their
million-selling album Don't Crush ThatDwarf, Hand Me The Pliers.
(1970). Played by David Ossman, Tirebiter has appeared in many live
stage shows and radio broadcasts, the best of which are
ready-to-hear in the 5-CD "George Tirebiter Collection,"
distributed by the Lodestone Catalogue. Tirebiter's long career,
like that of Sherlock Holmes, continues to be far realer than
fiction itself.
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