Come Back Dead

Scott Elliott Mystery #2

by Terence Faherty

While trying to buy back the rights to his second movie, director Carson Drury realizes that his life is in danger if he refilms and rereleases the movie, and it is up to private eye Scott Elliot to find out who wishes to silence the director. 12,500 first printing.

Genres: Mystery

332 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 1997

About the author

Terence Faherty (1954-) is an American author of mystery novels.

My name is Terence Faherty. I'm a storyteller whose stories most often take the form of mysteries. (A critic once noted, cryptically but correctly, that all my stories are mysteries, even the ones that aren't.) I do see basic storytelling and mystery solving as linked, because in so many stories the protagonist is trying to answer a question or right a wrong. This is why I see the mystery and especially the private eye story as a particularly straightforward form of storytelling: a problem is posed and a hero sets out to resolve it. (At least, it would be straightforward if all clients were forthcoming and truthful.)

I've written two series in book form. The Owen Keane series follows the bumpy life of a failed seminarian turned amateur sleuth (a job title I love). It's been nominated twice for the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award and once for the Anthony Award and it's won a Macavity Award from Mystery Readers International. The Scott Elliott series is set in old Hollywood during its decline and fall. Elliott, an operative for a shady security company, tries to slow that decline and fall in his own small way. Elliott has been nominated for three Shamus Awards from the Private Eye Writers of America and taken home two.


* Uncanny: Short story writen by Terence Faherty.

Series:
* Owen Keane Mystery
* Scott Elliott Mystery

Reviews

[Cheryl]

Abandoned. I just couldn't get into it.

[Jeffrey Philips]

Terence Faherty won a Shamus for this novel in 1997. The book take place in 1955 and takes place in old Hollywood. Loved every page.

[Jack Heath]

Synopsis: Tinsel Town sleuth Elliott scurries to thwart a film saboteur who may be desperate enough to kill.