Murder by the Book (1987)
- Directed by
- Mel Damski
- Genre
- comedy, crime, mystery, thriller, tv movie
- Country
- United States, Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 8 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A mild-mannered mystery writer keeps seeing his hard-boiled private eye character appear as a hallucination. He decides to replace the detective with a more civilized one, but then gets caught up in a real case of art fraud and murder.
whimsicallightheartedquirkyplayfulmysteriouscomedicoffbeatmoderate-paced
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