Clean American Fun

by Christopher Newman, Marjorie Anderson (Designer), Sherry Huber (Producer)

Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler presents
Sounds Like Murder
Original, unabridged mysteries available on audio

1 cassette / 110 minutes
Unabridged
Read by Darrell Larson

"This is old-fashioned story-telling at its best. Interesting and involving tales from some of the masters of mysteries."
-Michael Connelly, author of Blood Work

Three thousand acres next to Branson, Missouri, is a gold mine to the wealthy and eccentric Sir Reginald Hollister. "Clean American Fun" could be the biggest theme park north of Disneyland. There's one catch: when a woman is found murdered, all eyes and evidence point to Hollister. But when two secret service agents arrive on the scene, suddenly politicians, actors, and an irreverent revered all have reason to dispense with "Clean American Fun."

Other titles in the SOUNDS LIKE MURDER series include:

Driving Lessons by Ed McBain
The Sedgemoor Strangler by Peter Lovesey
The Case of the Scottish Tragedy by June Thompson
A Tale About a Tiger by S. J. Rozan
The Poster Boy by Stephen Solomita
Art Kills by Eric Lustbader
A Dish Taken Cold by Anne Perry
No Connection by Susan Moody

Audio Cassette

First published May 19, 1998

About the author

Born in San Francisco, California in 1952, Christopher Newman was educated in Bay Area Catholic schools, the University of California at Santa Cruz and Birmingham University, England. He travelled overland from Europe across the Asian subcontinent to Singapore alone in his late teens. Before he was 21 he'd worked for a year aboard a tanker plying trade between the Persian Gulf and ports around the Pacific rim. He wrote the first draft of his third published novel, Manana Man, while in residence in Cali, Colombia his senior year in college. At 27, he moved to New York City, working as a trim carpenter for five years in Manhattan before publishing his first Joe Dante novel, Midtown South, in 1985. When that title met with considerable commercial success, his publisher convinced him to turn his protagonist into a series character. Eight more Joe Dante novels followed, all making various national best seller lists. Midtown North, published in 1991, was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award by the Mystery Writers of America. Chains of Command, left unfinished at the time of best-selling author William Caunitz death in 1998, was completed by Mr. Newman at the estate's request. It was named a 1999 New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

Mr. Newman left New York in 2002 and currently resides in Lexington, Kentucky.