Kill Your Darlings - A Mallory Mystery

Roscoe Kane is one of the lastand, in Mallorys opinion, bestof the old-school mystery writers. Back in the day, he turned out crime thrillers filled with babes, bullets, and tough-guy banter. But today Kane is filled with bitterness over the nosedive his career took after he sued a publisher. For Mallory, who learned his craft at Kanes knee, its tough watching his literary hero drown his sorrows in boozebut its a million times tougher finding the old master drowned in a hotel bathtub. Some call it ironic that Kane meets his end in the middle of Bouchercon, the famed convention thats a mecca for mystery writers. The Chicago