Moses Wine is bored and depressed. Unfortunately, his shrink's idea of helping him is to get him involved in a case. One member of the country's most popular comedy team has jumped off a roof to his death. His wife denies it was suicide, and Moses must follow the clues from LA to the South Bronx.
Moses Wine thought he had put his interest in politics far behind him when he became a Los Angeles-based private detective. Sure, he'd once been an activist, but that had been during the Sixties. A lifetime ago...or so it seemed, before Lila Shea showed up on his doorstep. Lila was a woman who co...
SIMON I had two inspirations in writing The Straight Man: my personal experiences in psychotherapy (I wouldn't bore you with them), and my adventures working with Richard Pryor on a movie called Bustin' Loose 9anything but boring). After writing the script of The Big Fix, I had a temporary—everyt...