227 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's black paper with red gilt to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Beck takes a break from her overgalvanized Jane da Silva series (Cold Smoked, 1995, etc.) for a plunge into the even more frenetic world of KLEG-AM, Seattle's dying also-ran classical radio station. New advertising account executive Alice Jordan, who's cadged the job from Caroline Payne Parker, the station's much-married co-owner and nominal manager, arrives on the scene to discover that the program director is a militant vinyl Luddite, the receptionist a megalomaniac, the evening announcer a has-been romeo, the overnight announcer (``Teresa, Queen of the Night'') an audiotaped misterioso nobody's ever laid eyes on, and the other owner, Caroline's brother Franklin, a resentful hothead who's ready to sell the whole kit and caboodle to the first psycho who comes up with half a million dollars. About the only person around with any business sense is ad sales manager Ed Costello, and he's dead--folded up in a Murphy bed, presumably by somebody who didn't take kindly to his experiments in prostitution and blackmail. So Alice, whose main qualification for amateur sleuthing is that she's not nuts--``weepy and neurotic, maybe, but not nuts''--ends up solving the murder, though, in keeping with the zany spirit of the enterprise, that's far from her intention. A tightly wound farce whose dim view of the station dweebs and ditzes is pursued with comical consistency to the very last line. Condition: A near fine copy in like jacket. Seller Inventory # BOOKS004288

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Title: We Interrupt this Broadcast

Publisher: Mysterious Press, New York

Publication Date: 1997

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Edition: 1st Edition

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The author of the Jane da Silva mysteries follows Alice Jordan, an abandoned wife, who lands a job as a sales representative for a classical music radio station that doubles as an escort service run by her recently murdered predecessor.

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/ 9780892966424 / English literature / Engels / English / Anglais / Englisch / hard cover / 22 x 14 cm / 227 .pp /

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