Murder on the Aisle

By Ed Gorman

Book Overview

Size: 5 ½ x 8 ½ (approximately)Pages: 160 pages Binding/Cover: Hardback with dust jacket This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312006233
• ISBN13: 9780312006235
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A good, but not great murder mystery

Tobin and Dunphy are the co-stars of the syndicated television show "Peeps", a show where the two movie reviewers express their opinions of new movies. Gorman openly compares the show to the famous one that starred Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert. However, Tobin and Dunphy are popular because they genuinely fight, in fact they get into another fistfight while they are taping a show. Things get even worse when Dunphy is found dead in Tobin's dressing room with a knife in his back. Suspicion naturally falls on Tobin and the investigation turns up multiple motives involving everything from professional to personal jealousy. Affairs with spouses and the threat of cancellation due to Dunphy leaving the show mean that even the dumbest cop would have to suspect Tobin. Realizing that his only hope is to find the real killer(s) Tobin goes searching, using as his primary resource his knowledge of what the cops do in the movies. Fortunately, the list of logical suspects is small and the culprits aren't all that capable, so Tobin is able to solve the case. As murder mysteries go, there is not a great deal of tension in this one; the climactic scene of the unmasking of the murderer is routine when compared to the rest of the story. However, Gorman does keep the story going by providing a large number of potential culprits as well as some comments about Hollywood false fronts. Specifically when referring to the females aspiring to be stars.