Ten Dead Comedians, Fred Van Lente
Ten Dead Comedians, Fred Van Lente
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Ten Dead Comedians
A Murder Mystery

Author: Fred Van Lente

Narrator: JD Jackson

Unabridged: 8 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/11/2017

Synopsis

Fred Van Lente’s brilliant debut is both an homage to the Golden Age of Mystery and a thoroughly contemporary show-business satire. As the story opens, nine comedians of various acclaim are summoned to the island retreat of legendary Hollywood funnyman Dustin Walker. The group includes a former late-night TV host, a washed-up improv instructor, a ridiculously wealthy “blue collar” comic, and a past-her-prime Vegas icon. All nine arrive via boat to find that every building on the island is completely deserted. Marooned without cell phone service or wifi signals, they soon find themselves being murdered one by one. But who is doing the killing, and why?A darkly clever take on Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None and other classics of the genre, Ten Dead Comedians is a marvel of literary ventriloquism, with hilarious comic monologues in the voice of every suspect. It’s also an ingeniously plotted puzzler with a twist you’ll never see coming!

About Fred Van Lente

FRED VAN LENTE is the #1 New York Times best-selling writer of the comics Odd Is on Our Side, Archer & Armstrong, and Action Philosophers! He also cowrote the graphic novel Cowboys and Aliens, which was made into a film starring Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sam

In his debut novel, Fred Van Lente does Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None - but with comedians! And it’s not bad. Many of the characters are thinly-veiled versions of real-life comedians: there’s a Larry the Cable Guy-type, Carrot Top, Ali Wong, George Lopez, and Joan Rivers, to name a few......more

Goodreads review by Jackie

In Ten Dead Comedians, a text by popular comedian Dustin Walker goes out to 10 comedians, inviting them on a private island to work on a new comedy project together. But when they get there, Dustin is nowhere to be found, they have no cell reception and therefore no way to get off the island and the......more

Goodreads review by Liz

This was an entertaining homage to Agatha Christie and to old school murder mystery but with a cutting edge and a lot of hilarious happenings. Full review to follow.......more

Goodreads review by Maria

O copie mai obosita a cărții Agatei, Zece negri mititei. Am crezut ca va fi ceva parodie, amuzanta, dar n a prea fost. Niște situații, niște oameni și niște crime. Nu prea am ce sa zic mai mult. Cred ca nota corecta, undeva între 2-3 stele. Ii dau 3, dar nu știu dacă as recomanda-o neaparat. Merge d......more

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