"What if Carol Burnett had starred in Murder She Wrote? Jordan answers that question with a wink and a giggle in his debut mystery starring Polly Pepper, an aging, Emmy-winning TV actress. Polly, unfortunately, hasn't worked in years, so she's thrilled when she comes up for a part in Detention Rules, a teen romp. To Polly's dismay, Sedra Stone, her longtime rival, steals the role. When Sedra belly flops to her death in an empty pool after her first day of filming, Polly gets another chance—until anarchy shuts down production.
Polly, aided by her party-planner son, Tim, and her wisecracking housekeeper, Placenta, starts her own gleeful, unofficial investigation, which includes much Tinseltown gossip, canoodling with suspects, champagne drinking and general mayhem. This crazed clue fest may reveal that Polly has nothing on Agatha Christie, but the dish on real-life Hollywood, past and present, enlivens the start of a promising series." (Feb.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
"First, aging actress Trixie Wilder is murdered on the set of Detention Rules, a movie about a high school featuring two starlet ingénues. Then Sedra Stone is given the part, eliminating Polly Pepper from contention. When Stone is found dead at the bottom of an empty swimming pool on the set, Polly Pepper, the once-famous star of The Polly Pepper Playhouse, a long-running TV variety show, decides to find out what happened to her nemesis (Sedra not only got acting parts that Polly wanted but also stole two of her husbands). Full of Hollywood types bent on success and willing to do anything to get it, Jordan's zany, name-dropping tale is full of snide comments and vicious sniping at what has become the norm in the movie capital of the world. This is laugh-out-loud funny."
“Move over, Auntie Mame! Here comes Polly Pepper, R.T. Jordan’s endearingly outrageous drama queen-turned-sleuth. Armed with a maid, a Rolls-Royce, and a magnum of champagne, Polly solves a dastardly murder and dishes plenty of show biz gossip in this laugh-out-loud funny debut mystery. It’s a hoot and a half!”
Welcome to Polly Pepper's Hollywood!
