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McDonald, Gregory Books
1. Fletch
2. Confess, Fletch
3. Fletch and the Widow Bradley
4. Fletch's Moxie
5. Fletch and the Man Who
6. Fletch, Too
7. Fletch Won
8. Fletch's Fortune
9. Carioca Fletch
10. Fletch Reflected

Review: Last Days
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Skeleton Key Movie Review - Boring Voodoo Mystery
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Fletch
Authors: Gregory Mcdonald.
Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
Publication Date: 2002-03-12


Reviews :

    Fletch

He’s an investigative reporter whose methods are a little unorthodox. Currently he’s living on the beach with the strung-out trying to find to the source of the drugs they live for.

Fletch

He’s taking more than a little flack from his editor. She doesn’t appreciate his style. Or the expense account items he’s racking up. Or his definition of the word deadline. Or the divorce lawyers who keep showing up at the office.

Fletch

So when multimillionaire Alan Stanwyk offers Fletch the job of a lifetime, which could be worth a fortune, he’s intrigued and decides to do a little investigation. What he discovers is that the proposition is anything but what it seems....



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Confess, Fletch
Authors: Gregory Mcdonald.
Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
Publication Date: 2002-03-12


Reviews :

    Confess, Fletch

The flight from Rome had been pleasant enough, even if the business he was on wasn’t exactly. His Italian fianc?e’s father had been kidnapped and presumably murdered, and Fletch is on the trail of a stolen art collection that is her only patrimony. But when he arrives in his apartment to find a dead body, things start to get complicated.

Confess, Fletch

Inspector Flynn found him a little glib for someone who seemed to be the only likely suspect in a pretty clear case of homicide. He wasn’t exactly uncooperative, but it wasn’t like he was entirely forthcoming either. And Flynn wasn’t entirely convinced that the nineteenth-century Western artist Edgar Arthur Tharp really occupied most of Fletch’s thoughts.

Confess, Fletch

With the police on his tail and a few other things to do beside prove his own innocence, Fletch makes himself at home in Boston, renting a van, painting it black, and breaking into a private art gallery. That is when he’s not “entertaining” his future mother-in-law
and visiting with the good Inspector Flynn and his family....



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Fletch and the Widow Bradley
Authors: Gregory Mcdonald.
Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Vintage
Publication Date: 2002-07-09


Reviews :

    Fletch and the Widow Bradley

When Fletch finds a wallet with $10,000 in cash inside, he doesn’t realize it’s the last piece of good luck he’s going to see for a while. Because when he calls in to the News-Tribune, he discovers a story he’s written is causing quite a sensation, and not the good kind. He might just be out of a job permanently.

Fletch and the Widow Bradley

If Tom Bradley, the chairman of Wagnall-Phipps and one of Fletch’s principal sources, and not incidentally, the source of his paper’s embarrassment, is dead, who’s been signing his name to company documents, and why doesn’t the company treasurer seem to know? If he’s alive, how come his widow, Enid, has Tom’s ashes on the mantel?

Fletch and the Widow Bradley

Fletch may have more questions than answers on his hands, but he knows he’s a pretty good reporter, and if he’s going to get his reputation back, not to mention his job, he’s going to have to get to the bottom of more than one mystery....



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Fletch's Moxie
Authors: Gregory Mcdonald.
Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
Publication Date: 2005-07-12


Reviews :

    In Fletch’s Moxie, the prolific Gregory Mcdonald tests his incomparable investigative journalist once again with a caper that is as perfectly plotted as Fletch is brilliant.

It seems just about everyone in Hollywood had a reason to want Steve Peterman dead. But how someone managed to put a knife in his back on a live broadcast without being seen is anyone’s guess. Unfortunately for Fletch, his girlfriend, Moxie Mooney, a huge star at the box office, is also the number one suspect. With the police asking way too many questions, Fletch whisks Moxie and her drunken father, O.L., off to Key West for a little privacy. But before he can even check out the beach, the rest of the suspects decide to check in. Now, in a house full of Hollywood’s elite, Fletch is increasingly amazed at how ruthless the movie business can be....



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Fletch and the Man Who
Authors: Gregory Mcdonald.
Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
Publication Date: 2004-12-07


Reviews :

    “A girl jumped off the motel’s roof. Five minutes ago.”

"Give it to me straight. Does the girl have anything to do with us? I mean, with the campaign? The presidential candidate?"

"It's your job, Fletch, to make damned sure she didn't."


FLETCH and the Man Who
When Fletch arrives as the new press representative for Governor Caxton Wheeler’s presidential campaign, he isn’t sure which mystery to solve first: what his new job actually is or why the campaign has been leaving dead women in its tracks.

FLETCH and the Man Who
He finds himself on the other side of the press, a human shield deflecting the questions he is asking himself. Are the murders just coincidence, or is a cold-hearted killer looking for a job in the White House?

FLETCH and the Man Who
When the campaign shifts into high gear, Fletch’s skills are working overtime in a desperate bid of his own to find the killer and to make sure the governor doesn’t lose any more votes....



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Ben Hur Four-Disc Collector's Edition
"Ben-Hur," one of the most ambitious epics ever filmed, earned an impressive 11 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director (William Wyler) and Best Actor (Charlton Heston). The film has been hailed for many aspects – its grand size,...

Sky High Pictures
When I first heard about Sky High, my eyes rolled. The concept sounded quite dumb. A bad mix between Harry Potter and The Incredibles. However, I've gotta to admit that the cast looks just amazing and after seeing the trailer... it still looks silly... but also like it could be a lot of fun. We'll see. The visual effects shots that I saw looked just fantastic and a lot of the set direction impressed me too. Anyway, the good folks over at BlackFIlm have posted like 25 images f

 


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Fletch, Too
Authors: Gregory Mcdonald.
Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
Publication Date: 2002-10-08


Reviews :

    Fletch, Too

After a few delays and without the benefit of a rehearsal, it looks like Fletch is finally getting hitched. It’s a small affair, just a few friends, the bride’s parents, the groom’s mother, and, just maybe, his father. Except Fletch’s father is supposed to be dead.

Fletch, Too

But somebody delivered the letter, signed Fletch (senior) and containing an invitation (and a pair of plane tickets) to visit the old man in Nairobi for the honeymoon. Never mind Fletch and his bride were planning a ski trip to Colorado.

Fletch, Too

No sooner does the couple land in Africa (togged out for skiing!), then the search for Fletch’s father begins. There’s a murder at the airport, reports of the old man’s incarceration, and the hospitality (and evasiveness) offered by pop’s best friend, who flies them across the continent, just a step or two behind (or maybe ahead of) the old rascal....



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Fletch Won
Authors: Gregory Mcdonald.
Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
Publication Date: 2002-07-09


Reviews :

    Fletch Won

As a fledgling reporter, Fletch is doing more flailing than anything else. That and floating around from department to department trying to figure where he fits in. His managing editor’s got him pegged for the society pages, but the kind of society Fletch gets involved with is anything but polite.

Fletch Won

His first big interview, a millionaire lawyer with a crooked streak and an itch to give away some of his ill-gotten gains, ends up dead in the News-Tribune’s parking lot before Fletch can ask question number one. So Fletch ends up going after the murderer instead, and ends up learning a thing or two about crime and punishment.

Fletch Won

At the same time, he’s supposed to be covering (or maybe uncovering) a health spa that caters to all its clients needs, and gets hired as a very personal trainer. Never mind that he’s supposed to be getting married at the end of the week; Fletch has a few other engagements to take care of first....



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Fletch's Fortune
Authors: Gregory Mcdonald.
Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
Publication Date: 2002-03-12


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    Fletch’s Fortune

He hadn’t been a practicing journalist for years, although people remembered him and he still has a few contacts. And he’s pretty sure he hasn’t paid his dues to the American Journalism Alliance anytime recently. But somebody has.

Fletch’s Fortune

Enjoying himself on the French Riviera, developing a killer tan, and sleeping with the neighbor’s wife, Fletch is feeling pretty flush. But when agents Eggers and Fabens show up with a little more information about Fletch than is comfortable and an invitation to the A.J.A. convention, how could he refuse?

Fletch’s Fortune

So he finds himself enlisted as a spy among his peers. But before he can even set up his surveillance, there’s a murder. And almost everybody’s a suspect. Because a lot of people were employed by Walter March, and most of them had a reason to hate him....



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Carioca Fletch
Authors: Gregory Mcdonald.
Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
Publication Date: 2002-10-08


Reviews :

    Carioca Fletch

Fletch’s trip to Brazil wasn’t exactly planned. But it’s Carnival time in Rio and he has plenty of money, thanks to a little arrangement made stateside. And it took him no time to hook up with the luscious Laura Soares. Fletch is beginning to relax, just a little.

Carioca Fletch

But between the American widow who seems to be following Fletch and the Brazilian widow who’s fingered Fletch as her long-dead husband, he suddenly doesn’t have much time to enjoy the present or even get a wink of sleep.

Carioca Fletch

A thirty-year-old unsolved murder, a more recent suicide, an inconvenient heart attack–somehow Fletch is connected to all of them and one of those connections might just shorten his own life. From Rio to Bahia and back again, at the height of Carnival, Fletch has to keep moving or get stopped cold....



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Fletch Reflected
Authors: Gregory Mcdonald.
Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
Publication Date: 2006-04-11


Reviews :

    Fletch Reflected

Fletch’s newfound son Jack has just heard from an old flame who’s about to marry a billionaire’s son—that is until her future father-in-law suffers several near-fatal accidents.

Fletch Reflected

The potential victim—the inventor of the perfect mirror, which allows people to see themselves exactly as others do—lives in his own secluded compound, so Jack gets a job as pool hand on the estate to get closer to the action.

Fletch Reflected

Now Jack's life may be in danger, and he will need his inimitable father's help to discover—before it's too late—whose reflection hides a killer's heart....



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