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Crashing
It sounds like a budding writer's dream: a bestselling first novel, a luxurious house in Malibu, and a trophy wife... But it all unravels when writer's block and a failed marriage send Richard McMurray out into the streets.
Murder by the Book
Mild-mannered mystery writer D. H. Mercer has become so immersed in his material that his creation, hard-boiled private eye Biff Deegan, constantly appears to him as a hallucination. Intent on getting rid of Biff, and replacing him with a more civilized detective, Mercer soon finds himself in a genuine mystery involving art fraud, murder, and a beautiful lady in peril.
Top Billed Cast
Robert Hays D.H. 'Hank' Mercer / Biff Deegan
Catherine Mary Stewart Marissa
Christopher Murney Lt. Greenberg
Fred Gwynne Victor Greville
Celeste Holm Claire
Jonathan Moore Nicholas Rubinstein
Martin Neufeld Pete
Michael Copeman Bunty Webb 
Eric Keenleyside 
Robin Ward Eric Fink Thick Wilson Al Bernardo 
Louis Di Bianco 
Marc Gomes Raymond Hunt James Walton 
Lynne Cormack 
Lynne Gorman
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