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From the jacket copy for RAISE THE DEVIL
How do you stop a vicious killer whose motive is vengeance and whose prey is a movie company on an isolated California ranch?

In 1962 Scott Elliott, top operative of Hollywood Security, problem solvers of last resort, travels to Las Vegas to rescue Beverly Brooks, a starlet who's fallen afoul of a movie-struck gangster. When Brooks and the producer of her current film, a cut-rate Cleopatra, are later killed in a fiery plane crash, Elliott follows a bloody trail from the ranch to Los Angeles and back again. There he must deal with a murderous evil -- and the knowledge that his actions may have unleashed it.

Evoking the high summer of a lost American era while exploring the weaknesses and secret sins that led to its destruction, Raise the Devil is in every way a worthy sequel to Come Back Dead, winner of the Shamus Award for Best Private Eye Novel of the year.

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Winner of the 1997 Shamus Award for best Best Private Eye Novel of 1997
"Elliott makes a tough, principled protagonist in this unique and satisfying series.

The Cleveland Plains-Dealer

....About the novel...

COME BACK DEAD, the newest title in the Scott Elliott series, is a sequel to KILL ME AGAIN, which introduced Elliott and was named one of the ten best mysteries of 1996 by the editors of the Drood Review of Mystery. KILL ME AGAIN was set in 1947, and Elliott was still adjusting to civilian life. COME BACK DEAD is set in 1955. I liked the idea of moving Elliott forward in time to well after the war, when he would be in a position to reevaluate his postwar life. But the time period was dictated by a real event I used in the book: the demise of one of the greatest Hollywood studios, RKO, and the sale to television of the RKO film library.

Included in the fire sale is one of RKO's most famous flops, 1942's The Imperial Albertsons, the second film of boy-genius director Carson Drury. It closely followed Drury's greatest hit and debut film, First Citizen, which he wrote, directed, and starred in. Drury blamed the failure of his second feature on RKO, because the studio replaced his ending before releasing the film. Albertsons undid Drury's reputation, and he's been in the wilderness ever since. Now, thirteen years later, he hatches a brilliant plan for redemption. He'll buy The Imperial Albertsons from RKO, reshoot his original ending, and re-release the film.

Film buffs will recognize parallels between Carson Drury and Orson Wells, the ill-fated Hollywood legend. Mystery buffs will suspect that Drury's planned redemption won't go smoothly, and that is the case (and the story). When sabotage attempts break out on the set, Scott Elliott is called in to save Drury's dream. He accompanies Drury when the director, hoping to find peace, relocates the production to rural Indiana. It's a move that backfires in a big way.

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"One of the ten best mysteries of 1996."

Drood Review of Mystery

....About the novel...

KILL ME AGAIN introduces Scott Elliott, a former Paramount contract player whose acting career was one of the many casualties of World War II. Elliott now works for Hollywood Security, a firm that specializes in the discreet laundering of the studios' dirtiest linen. In 1947 these services are badly needed by Warner Bros. The projected sequel to their hugely popular wartime romance, Passage to Lisbon., is threatened by an anonymous note accusing the sequel's screenwriter of being a Communist. When the screenwriter is found shot to death clutching a copy of the script, Elliott sets out to find the murderer, using the ill-fated screenplay -- and its hidden secrets -- as his guide.

REVIEWS "Faherty may have himself a winner here. . . the pacing is excellent. . .all told, this is one of the better new series I've encountered of late."

Armchair Detective

"Faherty is particularly adept at creating a likable, interesting, and empathetic lead character, and Scott Elliott is no exception."

The Indianapolis News

"Alive with the music of 1947, the voices of the era, the smell of the postwar, refreshingly straightforward and evocative, KILL ME AGAIN is. . . easily one of the best of the year. Don't miss it.

Mystery Scene

"Packs as many curves as Betty Grable."

Kirkus

"One of the ten best mysteries of 1996."

Drood Review of Mystery

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	`From the jacket copy for RAISE THE DEVIL` How do you stop a vicious killer whose motive is vengeance and whose prey is a movie company on an isolated California ranch? In 1962 Scott Elliott, top operative of Hollywood Security, problem solvers of last resort, travels to Las Vegas to rescue Beverly Brooks, a starlet who's fallen afoul of a movie-struck gangster. When Brooks and the producer of her current film, a cut-rate Cleopatra, are later killed in a fiery plane crash, Elliott follows a bloody trail from the ranch to Los Angeles and back again. There he must deal with a murderous evil -- and the knowledge that his actions may have unleashed it. Evoking the high summer of a lost American era while exploring the weaknesses and secret sins that led to its destruction, Raise the Devil is in every way a worthy sequel to Come Back Dead, winner of the Shamus Award for Best Private Eye Novel of the year. `Click here for Chapter One of RAISE THE DEVIL`

	`Winner of the 1997 Shamus Award for best Best Private Eye Novel of 1997` `"Elliott makes a tough, principled protagonist in this unique and satisfying series.` `The Cleveland Plains-Dealer` `....About the novel...` `COME BACK DEAD`, the newest title in the Scott Elliott series, is a sequel to KILL ME AGAIN, which introduced Elliott and was named one of the ten best mysteries of 1996 by the editors of the Drood Review of Mystery. KILL ME AGAIN was set in 1947, and Elliott was still adjusting to civilian life. COME BACK DEAD is set in 1955. I liked the idea of moving Elliott forward in time to well after the war, when he would be in a position to reevaluate his postwar life. But the time period was dictated by a real event I used in the book: the demise of one of the greatest Hollywood studios, RKO, and the sale to television of the RKO film library. `Included in the fire sale is one of RKO's most famous flops, 1942's` The Imperial Albertsons`, the second film of boy-genius director Carson Drury. It closely followed Drury's greatest hit and debut film,` First Citizen`, which he wrote, directed, and starred in. Drury blamed the failure of his second feature on RKO, because the studio replaced his ending before releasing the film. Albertsons undid Drury's reputation, and he's been in the wilderness ever since. Now, thirteen years later, he hatches a brilliant plan for redemption. He'll buy` The Imperial Albertsons `from RKO, reshoot his original ending, and re-release the film.` `Film buffs will recognize parallels between Carson Drury and Orson Wells, the ill-fated Hollywood legend. Mystery buffs will suspect that Drury's planned redemption won't go smoothly, and that is the case (and the story). When sabotage attempts break out on the set, Scott Elliott is called in to save Drury's dream. He accompanies Drury when the director, hoping to find peace, relocates the production to rural Indiana. It's a move that backfires in a big way.`

Back In Print	`"One of the ten best mysteries of 1996."` `Drood Review of Mystery` `....About the novel...` `KILL ME AGAIN` `introduces Scott Elliott, a former Paramount contract player whose acting career was one of the many casualties of World War II. Elliott now works for Hollywood Security, a firm that specializes in the discreet laundering of the studios' dirtiest linen. In 1947 these services are badly needed by Warner Bros. The projected sequel to their hugely popular wartime romance,` Passage to Lisbon`., is threatened by an anonymous note accusing the sequel's screenwriter of being a Communist. When the screenwriter is found shot to death clutching a copy of the script, Elliott sets out to find the murderer, using the ill-fated screenplay -- and its hidden secrets -- as his guide.`
`REVIEWS`	`"Faherty may have himself a winner here. . . the pacing is excellent. . .all told, this is one of the better new series I've encountered of late."` `Armchair Detective` `"Faherty is particularly adept at creating a likable, interesting, and empathetic lead character, and Scott Elliott is no exception."` `The Indianapolis News` `"Alive with the music of 1947, the voices of the era, the smell of the postwar, refreshingly straightforward and evocative, KILL ME AGAIN is. . . easily one of the best of the year. Don't miss it.` `Mystery Scene` `"Packs as many curves as Betty Grable."` `Kirkus` `"One of the ten best mysteries of 1996."` `Drood Review of Mystery`