screenwriters

Contains alphabetically arranged essays that provide information about the careers of sixty-five significant motion-picture writers; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography. Includes a cumulative index.

A sci-fi film writer discovers a body frozen in time and poised to climb from the city of the dead to the city of light.

Daniel Hayes wakes up naked and half-drowned on an abandoned Maine beach with no memory, just a vague feeling of guilt, and after finding a driverless BMW with clothes and shoes that fit him perfectly, he sets out in search of clues to his life, and discovers he is a successful screenwriter who is wanted for the murder of his wife.

Provides a memoir about the notable members of the "blacklist" developed by Senator Joseph McCarthy on suspected communists in the late 1940s which included filmstars and screen writers.

Private Investigator Quinn is invited by Alex Krapp, a Hollywood screenwriter, to help prove the existence of fifteen-year-old Danny Timpkins, an abuse survivor whose story is being adapted into a screenplay, while a "Vanity Fair" reporter sheds doubt on the story's veracity.

Screenwriter William Goldman explains what works best on the silver screen and what does not, and provides anecdotes from the sets of famous late-twentieth-century American films.

In California in 1949, a young writer and a detective believe a number of deaths associated with an amusement park were murders. Suddenly the killer begins stalking them.