Death Before Bedtime - Softcover

Edgar Box; Vidal, Gore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 039474053X ISBN 13: 9780394740539

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1979

Synopsis

In "Death Before Bedtime," dashing P.R. man Peter Sargent is invited to the home of a venerable senator to help strategize his imminent run for president. On the night before he s to announce, though, the senator is murdered in his bed. No longer needed as a political publicist, Sargent finds himself helping the police find the killer. He deftly navigates an eccentric cast of characters, all of whom are suspects: the rebellious daughter; the sycophantic aide; the grieving widow; and the power-hungry governor with his eye on the senator s job. Somehow, between charming the senator s daughter and glad-handing Washington s elite, Sargent still manages to methodically put the pieces into place and sees that politics truly is a cut-throat business."

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Review

"Clever and lively." --Anthony Boucher, "Los Angeles Times"
"The case of the missing author is over. Gore Vidal has emerged from behind the facade of Edgar Box." --"The New Republic"

Clever and lively. Anthony Boucher, "Los Angeles Times"
The case of the missing author is over. Gore Vidal has emerged from behind the facade of Edgar Box. "The New Republic""

About the Author

Gore Vidal is the author of twenty-three novels, five plays, two memoirs, numerous screenplays and short stories, and well over two hundred essays. His "United States: Essays, 1952" "1992" received the National Book Award."

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 039474053X
• ISBN 13: 9780394740539
• Binding: Paperback