Such Vicious Minds

Elvis Presley #4

by Daniel Klein

It's Memphis,1965. An increasingly withdrawn Elvis passes his evenings at the Memphian movie house, endlessly watching Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove." His friends and hangers-on are starting to worry,and so is his famously hucksterish manager,Colonel Tom Parker.

Things only get worse when the King finds out that someone has been disguising himself as Elvis in order to seduce his teenage fans,and that Colonel Tom's been paying off their parents to keep the scandal out of the press.

When a photographer who claims to have documented these seductions is murdered...and Colonel Tom is arrested for that murder...the stakes become life and death.

Genres: Mystery

240 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 2004

About the author

Daniel Klein is the co-author of the international bestseller Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar. He is a Harvard graduate in philosophy and an acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction. When not enjoying the slow life on Greek islands, he lives in Massachusetts with his wife. He is seventy-five years old.

Reviews

[Mary · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sex, scandal, blackmail, and finally, murder....Takes a while for the mystery develop, but it's the journey--not the destination. Elvis rules!

[Nicolas · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't care for the roadtrip format in this entry, but still a fun read.

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