Welcome to November! It's hard to believe that there are only two months left in the year and in my Top Shelf Challenge over on my YouTube channel. When we got to mid-year, it was apparent that I was not going to hit this challenge. I'm still deciding how I want it to carry over into next year, but I'm still working on it to see how far I can get this year.
The next book up for the Challenge is David Handler's The Man in the White Linen Suit; however, since that is the 11th book in the series, and I have to read series in order, I'm starting at the beginning with The Man Who Died Laughing (which adds 10 books to the Challenge).
From Amazon:
Stewart Hoag's first novel made him the toast of New York. Everyone in Manhattan wanted to be his friend, and he traveled the cocktail circuit supported by Marilee, his wife, and Lulu, his basset hound. But when writer's block sunk his second novel, his friends, money, and wife all disappeared. Only Lulu stuck by him. The only opportunity left is ghostwriting - an undignified profession that still beats dental school.
Hoagy's first client is Sonny Day, an aging comic who was the king of slapstick three decades ago. Since he and his partner had a falling out in the late 1950s, Day has grown embittered and poor, until the only thing left for him to do is write a memoir. Hoagy and Lulu fly to Hollywood expecting a few months of sunshine and easy living. Instead they find Day's corpse, and a murder rap with Hoagy's name on it.
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