Jon L. Breen, Author, Bill Adler, Jr., Author, Ray Russell, Author William Morrow & Company $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-06684-0
The shades of Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald would be disturbed that their names, in Thomas Chastain's introduction to this collection, are taken in vain. Macdonald's is even misspelled, a foretaste of the eight stories that lack bite,...
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Gloria Goodman, Author, Bill Adler, Jr., Author William Morrow & Company $22 (256p) ISBN 978-0-688-15315-1
Show-biz biographers often feel compelled to deliver dirt on their subjects, but not so Goodman in this exuberant, gossipy examination of TV's ""Queen of Nice"" (per Newsweek magazine). With O'Donnell, it seems, what you see is what you get....
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Bill Adler, Jr., Author William Morrow & Company $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-073282-0
Eloquent is a strong word to apply to this collection of musings and quotes. Adler, editor of the bestselling The Kennedy Wit: The Humor and Wisdom of John F. Kennedy, has vacuumed up excerpts from Onassis's letters, speeches and interviews along...
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Bill Adler, Jr., Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0075-2
Ratings show that Letterman is the most watched talk-show host on late-night television; here Adler ( The Kennedy Wit ) chronicles his rise to the top, from an Indianapolis boyhood to inheriting the mantle, if not the show, of his hero Johnny Carson.
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David R. Slavitt, Author, Bill Adler, Jr., Author Doubleday Books $16.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-385-23007-0
This third effort by the team who produced the Robins Family whodunits will probably be popular despite its ostentatious, contrived tone. Events unfold in flashbacks as Leonard Castle flees through the dark streets of Manhattan, trying to escape a...
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