Alibi for an Actress

By: Gillian B. Farrell and Jane Chelius

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Synopsis: Actress Annie McGrogan is "between things"—down to her last subway token ana a maxed-out credit card—when she sees the magazine story on J. "Duke" DeNobili, ex-cop turned successful PI. Three days later, she's the new partner to big, basso-voiced ex-cop Sonny Gandolfo, all-around good guy and Brooklyn-Bronx-Queens seducer. The assignment—protect Lucinda Merrill, sexy star of the popular daytime soap, Forever and Ever, from a threatening fan—proves to be a dull night of door-watching. The fireworks come in the morning, when Lucinda's wandering husband is found dead, murdered in his sleazy East Side pied a terre. At the scene, witnesses claim to have seen Lucinda grab a cab and flee into the night. While Forever and Ever's producers exult in the lurid headlines that send their ratings soaring, Annie McGrogan gives a triumphant, funny, heart-stopping performance to trap a murderer in a kinky case that only she—with her command of the actor's art—can solve.