"His wife was dead--bludgeoned with his Oscar--and screenwriter Toby Challis was hung with the crime. Only a bizarre accident kept him from getting intimately acquainted with the inside of a federal pen. How he has a chance to clear his name. With beautiful mystery writer Morgan Dyer at his side, Challis embarks on an odyssey through the inner circles of a powerful movie-making family, the penthouse suites of a vicious mobster and a ruthless publisher's glamorous yacht. What he uncovers is the grit behind the glitter, a side of Hollywood never seen on the silver screen, secret deals, shady secrets, dirty swindles--and crimes to dwarf even the murder of his wife..." --