It shocked Hollywood to its very core. The superstar producer of the fabulously successful television series, Seinfeld, and his own neurotic show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, the all-around, bon vivant, creative savant, Larry David, had been murdered. All evidence pointed to a pedestrian comedy writer whose greatest success in life was in writing a book on failure, a subject its author knew intimately. In an absurdist spoof, the great comedy writers of Hollywood are being murdered and it’s up to a nearly anonymous scribe to solve the mystery

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