The Penmanship Murders
(By Mark C. Hull)
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So when he agrees to help his hometown of Landville solve a series of grisly murders, he and his word are probably as good as dead. The homicides are dubbed “The Penmanship Murders” because the killer writes, with the victims’ entrails, terribly clichéd messages—in exquisite penmanship—to taunt both the police and the highbrow reading community. The prose-ridden crimes take on a bigger significance when the legendary actor and philanthropist Paul Newman is put on trial ten years after his death for these very same murders. Between Mr. Newman’s court battle and the impeachment trial of America’s newly elected, super-suave, foreign-born Italian president, Zolfo Dumpino, a national clash of epic proportions ensues. Can Caramore unmask the real killer before the entire country rips itself apart, or will the forces of vanity and bad writing destroy the fabric of society?
A laugh-out-loud satire of the modern American cultural and political landscape, The Penmanship Murders carves an absurd yet scathingly accurate path through the shallow and profound, the genuine and artificial, and the best and the worst of our collective humanity.”
