In comments #4 and #5, Post blogger Wharf Rat, the world’s foremost anonymous authority, posits his theory of fiction as it pertains to the enhanced female form. “Inquiring minds want to know,…” he blogs, “when did I lose my title as the man who knows everything about everything?... Read more →
DDB 33: Finally, The Final Chapter
In this, the final chapter of DROP DEAD BEAUTIFUL, the mystery novel by Michael Conniff set in Aspen, we learn our hero Arnold Bagdikian must nurse the woman he loves back to life–and there is the small matter of the small daughter he has sired in the test tube. But things could be worse. He and... Read more →
DROP DEAD BEAUTIFUL 33: The View From Red Moutain
Thanks to the kind intercession of Declan Boyle and his close personal friends we were housesitting for the next fifty weeks at his home away from home on top of Red Mountain. I was playing nurse but not quite in the same way Declan Boyle had done on Sutton Place with his hired help in the high white... Read more →
DDB 32: Billion Dollar Baggie
In the penultimate chapter of DROP DEAD BEAUTIFUL, our hero ponders the eternal question: what’s a billion dollars worth without the woman you love? “We were sitting outside on the terrace of the Hotel Jerome on Main Street in Aspen on the first day it was open for the summer season,”... Read more →
DROP DEAD BEAUTIFUL 32: Billion Dollar Baggie
With Katherine Hallaby and Rick Townsend sitting beside him at the preliminary hearing, I never worried for a minute that Ozymandias Newcombe would not walk out of the courthouse in Montrose a free man. Enough of Ozzie’s friends in the right places had written the judge to make any prosecution for... Read more →
DDB 31: Kill If You Will
In the climax of DROP DEAD BEAUTIFUL, the mystery novel set in Aspen by Post blogger Michael Conniff, our hero Arnold Bagdikian finds it’s not so easy to find the kidnapped woman he loves. “The gunshot whistled past my ear close enough for me to hear the wheeeeee before I hit the deck,”... Read more →
Drop Dead Beautiful 31: Kill If You Will
The Argyle Hunting and Shooting Club was the biggest building beside the lodge in all of Bighorn Ranch, but even so it was not so easy to find it in the dark of night, even with the map and pocket compass Ozzie had given to all of us. Everything was as plain as the nose on my face if I could have... Read more →
DDB 30: No Placenta Like Home
DROP DEAD BEAUTIFUL, Michael Conniff’s mystery novel set in Aspen, races to a climax with the whereabouts of Amanda Madison, the woman Arnold Bagdikian loves. “Without warning,” Arnold Bagdikian writes, “Chance ripped open her blouse and the buttons tinkled to the floor. It was... Read more →
DROP DEAD BEAUTIFUL 30: No Placenta Like Home
People always say “the element of surprise” as though it works like a real element, like titanium or uranium, and I suppose there’s something to it. We had the element of surprise on our side but we would not have it for long, because by morning the element of surprise would not do us nearly... Read more →
DDB 28: Where In The World Is Amanda Madison?
In the mystery novel DROP DEAD BEAUTIFUL set in Aspen, our hero needs an assist from ‘the O’Kell mutants’ to find the woman he loves. “The last person I expected to knock on my door was Eugene Koksher with a pillow-case full of something lumpy over his shoulder,” writes... Read more →