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Fallen starlets, sleazy directors and a lurking murderer inhabit the back-lots of Hollywood in this new mystery novella from Untreed Reads.

Monkey See, Monkey Murder by Jack Bates

Hack Ward thought he had found a niche market for his skills as a private investigator when Hollywood came to Detroit. When washed up director Will Peyton gets pegged to direct a low-brow family comedy starring a chimp and a perpetual bad-girl pop star, Hack gets brought in by Peyton to keep an eye on starlet Haley Goslin. It’s not because Peyton is concerned about her image; it’s because Peyton is in love with the younger woman and doesn’t want her fooling around on him.

It isn’t long, however, before events on the set start turning sinister. Hack is on hand the day the chimp has a psychotic episode and attacks Haley. Saving her life sets off a chain of events that bring Hack and Haley closer together and puts them in more and more danger. On the morning she gets called into the set to shoot some additional footage, they have no idea they are getting called into a trap.

When it comes to murder, which is the more dangerous animal? Chimp � or man?

About Author Jack Bates:

Jack Bates writes crime fiction from the confines of his loft office. He runs an experimental writing site called . In the spring of 2011, his short story, “Broken Down on the Bonneville Flats,� was nominated for a Derringer Award by the Short Mystery Fiction Society.

He previously appeared in the Untreed Reads humorous mystery anthology The Killer Wore Cranberry with his short story Ambrosia as well as the flash fiction anthology Discount Noir.

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