Jim Stinson, Author Scribner Book Company $13.95 (198p) ISBN 978-0-684-18458-6
Stoney Winston, Harvard grad and would-be Hollywood script-writer, is functioning meanwhile as a general factotumprop-man, ""director,'' anything that pays the rentfor the shifty operator of a grubby little studio making sexy soda-pop commercials....
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Jim Stinson, Author Scribner Book Company $17.95 (211p) ISBN 978-0-684-18876-8
The third in a series featuring sometime director Stoney Winston ( Double Exposure ), this droll mystery transfers the hero from the film industry to the realm of L.A. real-estate swindlers. Long lacking a satisfactory job, Stoney is teaching a...
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Jim Stinson, Author Scribner Book Company $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-19225-3
The sleazy side of Hollywood's television industry is the focus of Stinson's (Truck Shot) fourth absorbing Stoney Winston mystery. The aspiring movie maker is a junior writer on the Oh-Pun Sesame game show when the producer, Marcia ``Ma'' Barker,...
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Jim Stinson. Plume, $15 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-0-452-29724-1
Filmmaker Stinson's debut shows divorced artist Anastasia "Tassy" Morgan through the eyes of the men in her life, and by default her own sense of self is lost. Her neighbor Lincoln Ellis, a widower and recent transplant to San Andreas, Calif., is...
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