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THE FLYING SAUCER MURDER CASE - A GEORGE TIREBITER MYSTERY ( IBD

BEARMANOR MEDIA
01 / 2018
9781629331942
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THE FLYING SAUCER MURDER CASEáAugust 1953 &ndash, The shamelessly noir Los Angeles Mirror Headlines &ndash, Probing Sen. McCarthy, Racy Dr. Kinsey, the Riveting Barbara Graham Murder Trial, POWs finally returning from Korea, UFOs in Hollywood! Sex and Death!áGeorge Tirebiter, a 1940&rsquo,s radio and movie actor, was falsely blacklisted as a Red, but has continued working in the movie business (under various assumed names), as a sci-fi story and ad lib dialogue writer.á In 1953, he owns the modest Rose-Bud Bungalow Court near USC and looks after his tenants.áThe Rose-Bud has ten little bungalows, each with its own surprise, including an electrified chair in Number 3, a tranquil corpse in Number 7, a seductive nude model in Number 2, and George, the amateur sleuth himself, in Number 1, just across the way from the appealing TV producer in Number 10.ááAlso appearing &ndash, Main St. strippers, flying saucer abductees and tall blue Venusians! áSgt. Cummings of the Death Squad and B-Movie gangsters!á An LP record from Outer Space, a screenland billionaire named Howard, Lenny Bruce and Marilyn Monroe!á The Ultimate Ear-Bomb Weapons Test!áDavid Ossman has chronicled the Hollywood adventures of George Tirebiter since George&rsquo,s debut in 1970 as a character on The Firesign Theatre&rsquo,s third hit Columbia comedy album Don&rsquo,t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers.á George ran (in person) for U.S. Vice President on the Surrealist Party ticket in 1976, starred in The Ronald Reagan Murder Case, a mystery thriller set in the Golden Age of Radio, and is featured in Ossman&rsquo,s memoir, Dr. Firesign&rsquo,s Follies.á Ossman&rsquo,s new memoir, Fighting Clowns of Hollywood and Screenplay!, collecting two unproduced Firesign feature films, &ldquo,Odyssey&rdquo, and &ldquo,Saucer!&rdquo, with the story behind &ldquo,Zachariah,&rdquo, plus three additional collections of Firesign Theatre stage and radio scripts are all Bear Manor books.

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