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Panic (Paperback)
Joseph Goodrich
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Mystery Drama / 2m, 4f / Interior set Recipient of the 2008 Mystery
Writer's of America Edgar Award for Best Play. Paris, 1963.
Director Henry Lockwood has come to the City of Light for the
premiere of his new film, Panic. Accompanied on the trip by his
wife Emma and his secretary Miriam, Lockwood expects nothing more
than to enjoy another cinematic success and to bask in the
adulation of young French film critic Alain Duplay. But when
Lockwood is accused of a hideous crime---a crime that could destroy
his career and his marriage---he's forced to confront the truth
about himself and those closest to him. Lockwood, known the world
over as 'the Sultan of Suspense, ' is caught in a nightmare
straight out of one of his own films.
Drama / 4 m, 3 f / Interior Set in the break room of a
quasi-governmental organization, Smoke and Mirrors follows Anita
and a handful of her co-workers through the course of a seemingly
normal day, complete with bad cafeteria food, inept bosses,
inappropriate e-mails and blood-stained lab-coats. Smoke and
Mirrors mingles the comic with the nightmarish, creating a world
composed of patriotism and cupcakes, of paranoia and air
freshener---a world uncomfortably close to our own. "In Smoke and
Mirrors, playwright Joseph Goodrich conjures up a wickedly amusing
portrait of a stultifying but nerve-racking workplace."
-Backstage.com "If Kafka scripted an episode of The Office, it
might resemble Joseph Goodrich's bizarre and often intriguing Smoke
and Mirrors, set in the smoking room of a nebulous American
corporation." -Time Out New York
Playwright, biographer, screenwriter, and critic S. N. Behrman
(1893-1973) characterized the years he spent writing for The New
Yorker as a time defined by ""feverish contact with great theatre
stars, rich people and social people at posh hotels, at parties, in
mansions and great estates."" While he hobnobbed with the likes of
Mary McCarthy, Elia Kazan, and Greta Garbo and was one of
Broadway's leading luminaries, Behrman would later admit that the
friendships he built with the magazine's legendary editors Harold
Ross, William Shawn, and Katharine S. White were the ""one
unalloyed felicity"" of his life. People in a Magazine collects
Behrman's correspondence with his editors along with telegrams,
interoffice memos, and editorial notes drawn from the magazine's
archives - offering an unparalleled view of mid-twentieth-century
literary life and the formative years of The New Yorker, from the
time of Behrman's first contributions to the magazine in 1929 until
his death.
2013 Malice Domestic Agatha Award Nominee "What a treasure . . .
literally a blow-by-blow account of the creation of three of the
strongest Queen novels." Francis M. Nevins, two-time Edgar winner
"A superlative book . . . jaw-dropping revelations." William Link,
creator of Columbo The writing team of Frederic Dannay and Manfred
B. Lee (better known by their joint byline of Ellery Queen)
produced some of the most ambitious mystery novels of the mid-20th
Century. Yet their relationship was acrimonious, marred by pain,
financial and professional dependency and mistrust. Here, culled
from the Dannay archives by author and dramatist Joseph Goodrich,
is the selected correspondence of these two volatile men during a
period of their most important creative achievements. With a
Foreword by longtime television producer-writer William Link
(Columbo, Ellery Queen, Murder, She Wrote).
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