The James Dean Affair

By Robert S. Levinson

For years Hollywood has buzzed with rumors of a curse on the actors who worked on the '50s classic film Rebel Without a Cause, a curse that caused them to die tragically and young. It started with James Dean crashing his Porsche, and then there was Nick Adams's overdose, Sal Mineo's murder, and Natalie Wood's drowning. But what if it wasn't a curse?

Los Angeles newspaper columnist Neil Gulliver and his ex-wife, Stevie Marriner--the "Sex Queen of the Soaps"--are on the job and come up with an interesting hypothesis: What if James Dean didn't really die in that crash, as millions of his fans believe? What if James Dean is still alive--and looking for revenge?

Neil and Stevie dodge threats on their own lives while tracking those answers and searching for a solution to a bizarre string of new James Dean-related murders. They follow a trail that takes them over the same death route Dean drove in his Porsche and, finally, to his boyhood home in Fairmount, Indiana. Nothing about James Dean is as it seems, not the truth and certainly not the lies. But which is which?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Robert S. Levinson
• Release date: Mar 15, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458187086

Robert S. Levinson

ROBERT S. LEVINSON, bestselling author of eight novels, The Traitor in Us All, In the Key of Death, Where the Lies Begin, Ask a Dead Man, Hot Paint, The James Dean Affair, The John Lennon Affair, The Elvis and Marilyn Affair. A regular contributor to Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen mystery magazines. Cited annual EQMM Awards poll three times. His Hitchcock short story, "The Quick Brown Fox," a 2009 Derringer Award winner. His fiction has appeared in “year’s best” anthologies six consecutive years, non-fiction in Rolling Stone, Writers Guild of America’s Written By Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, Westways Magazine, Autograph Magazine. His ninth novel, A Rhumba in Waltz Time, scheduled for August 2011. More: www.robertslevinson.com.

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