The Flying Saucer Murder Case - A George Tirebiter Mystery

<p> </p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Blue Venusians from outer space are watching Los Angeles in August 1953 where a sensational murder trial and Flying Saucer Convention compete with smog and a round black and white tv screen to distract George Tirebiter from completing his screenplay. A famous 1940 radio star now reduced to pounding a typewriter he little suspects that murders are about to take place in the Rose-Bud Bungalow Court units he owns. Tenant-landlord relations will never be the same.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>After Mr. Wispell his ham-operator tenant dies from radio electrocution and another dead body is discovered in unit #7 a mysterious radio message from Outer Space guides Tirebiter on a quizzical quest for the murderers. From the Follies Burlesque and Strip City to the desolate shores of the Salton Sea he and companion Mrs. Music follow a twisting trail of clues. Ever-tightening plot strands weave Marilyn Monroe Tempest Storm Lenny Bruce and Sgt. Cummings of the LAPD Murder Squad into a crazy quilt of intrigue that only an alien abduction the arrival of Venusians and the First Church of Science Fiction can resolve.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Can you stand the exhausting hilarity or the final shocking revelations?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Illustrated.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>About the author: David Ossman was a member of the Firesign Theatre dubbed the Beatles of Comedy by the Library of Congress. He is a pioneer FM and public broadcaster three-time Grammy nominee honored for Lifetime Achievement with the Norman Corwin Award and the Mystery Writers Angie. As a voice actor he is best known as Cornelius in </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A Bug's Life</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. His recent books include </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Marshmallows & Despair; The Sullen Art - Recording the Revolution in American Poetry; The Ronald Reagan Murder Case - A George Tirebiter Mystery Dr. Firesign's Follies - Radio Comedy Mystery History; </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Firesign Theatre's </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Anythynge You Want To; Exorcism In Your Daily Life; Profiles In Barbeque Sauce.</em></p><p> </p><p><br></p>