Digby Diehl Books In Order

Novels

  1. Soapsuds (2005)

Anthologies edited

  1. Tales from the Crypt (1996)

Non fiction

  1. Supertalk (1974)
  2. Front Pages, 1881-1981 (1981)
  3. Front Page (1987)
  4. A Spy for All Seasons (1997)
  5. The Million Dollar Mermaid (1999)
  6. Angel On My Shoulder (2000)
  7. San Gabriel Country Club (2003)
  8. Rather Outspoken (2012)
  9. Alone Together (2013)

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Digby Diehl Books Overview

Soapsuds

Passion, power, sex, betrayal, and seduction it’s all in a day s work.

Having escaped to Hollywood after catching her boyfriend in bed with her best friend, London stage actress Kate McPhee is offered a gig on the popular daytime television series Live for Tomorrow. As Devon Merrick police detective, car crash victim, and love interest for at least two men she knows all the secrets and sins pulsating in fictional Hope Canyon. But the real drama is off the set, where the soap is indeed slippery.

Enter Meredith Contini, the show s power wielding diva. Meredith has two rules: Know your place and Stay in it. Kate broke both on day one, which is why she suddenly found her character switching sexual orientation. That brilliant solution came from Daphne del Valle, the show s barking mad obsessive/compulsive producer, who drives herself and her actors to enthrall the audience. Sell the hurt. Sell the rage. Sell the hunger. Sell the looooooove.

As gay detective Devon Merrick, Kate is a smash. The show is a hit. Kate s private life seems to be becoming something of a drama itself. Especially since everybody thinks she really is gay, which is a problem since she thinks the best cure for her real life broken heart is to get a man into her bed. But who? Kirk, her sexy, tan, and talented leading man, is boffing Meredith. There s Matt, the magician who makes her tea, but will her fourteen hour days keep them from the promise of tangled sheets? And there s Wyatt, her handsome new co star, who Kate believes is the great love of her life. Except that he s married, and his
wife, Christine, is Kate s new makeup artist and the one sane friend she has made in Los Angeles.

As the line between television and reality blurs with increasing speed, tension tightens and passions surge. Does Wyatt want Kate as much as she wants him? Will Christine find out? Will Kate lose her new friend? Will Meredith finally have Kate fired? Will Kate ever get to come out as heterosexual on the set? Are her steamy kiss scenes fated to be only with beautiful women?

Emmy Award winning actress Finola Hughes whips up a frothy, scathingly funny novel worthy of any afternoon time slot in this delicious romp that takes readers through the twists, turns, and dish that drive the madness that is daytime television.

Tales from the Crypt

Open the vault and relive the experience!For forty seven years the Crypt Keeper and Tales from the Crypt have captured the imaginations and scared the wits out of people with their ghostly stories and grisly visions. Here, finally, is the book that looks back fondly on all glorious gore, the ultimate coffin table book that includes: the official biography of the Crypt Keeper and the history of EC Horror Comics a previously unpublished picto fiction horror story drawn by Jack Davis all 105 Ec Horror Comic covers reproduced in ‘living’ color a pictorial ‘filmography’ of the award winning HBO and Fox Television series featuring credits, synopses, and at least one ‘terrorific’ picture from every episode four original and complete stories by Jack Davis, Al Feldstein, Graham Ingels, and Jack Kamen reprinted from the actual art and reproduced in color in their original size brief biographies and portfolios of the key EC artists collectible section highlighting the coolest and most valuable Crypt merchandiseAnd much more, of corpse, of corpse!

Front Page

COLLECTION OF HISTORICAL HEADLINES FROKM THE LOS ANGELES TIMES DURING THE PERIOD OF 1881 1987

A Spy for All Seasons

This memoir of former CIA Deputy Director Duane R. ‘Dewey’ Clarridge offers revelations about clandestine activities he supervised in the world’s hot spots. He offers us an account of Iran Contra, and why the CIA was so shaken by the Walsh investigation. He offers a behind the scenes look at the Reagan administration’s secret war against Sandinistas a campaign Clarridge conceived and ran. Clarridge, who founded and headed the CIA’s counter terrorist centre, also reveals how the agency retaliated for the terrorist murders on the cruise ship ‘Achille Lauro’ and in the Vienna and Rome airports. Whether he is speaking about William Casey or William Webster, this intelligence veteran provides insider perspectives on key security issues and political events of our time.

The Million Dollar Mermaid

Not since David Niven wrote the bestselling The Moon’s a Balloon and its sequel Bring on the Empty Horses has one of Hollywood’s great stars written with such genuine wit and candor about what it was like to work in the movie factories where actors were pampered and coddled, yet expected to work without complaint for long, hard hours what it was like to be young and sexy and to be turned into an object of desire for millions of moviegoers what it was like to live in a world of almost total unreality, yet be expected to go about the business of finding a mate and raising a family, and avoiding personal scandal at all costs. Now, for the hundreds of thousands of people who read and loved both of Niven’s books, comes Esther Williams’s wonderfully witty, fresh, and frank autobiography, all about an eighteen year old girl who reluctantly answers the siren call of MGM at the time, the most powerful and prestigious movie studio in the world and who soon finds herself launched on a career that will last more than twenty years, during which time she will help to create a genre of film that seems almost unimaginable today, yet which still holds all its original freshness and fascination, and who becomes during those years one of the world’s top box office stars. Williams calls MGM her ‘university,’ and the education she got there was one in how to project glamour and femininity, how to make yourself desirable while always, always playing the lady. No one who were through that university has ever written before with such absolute candor about what it was really like the affairs, the gossip, the tricks of the trade, the competition, the deals, the fights, and the methods the studios had for keeping their stars in line. With a sharp mind and a rapier wit, Esther Williams brings to life those times and those bigger than life people, telling her stories with respect, yet with clear eyed candor. Filled with behind the scenes gossip and tales of real life in a fantasy world, The Million Dollar Mermaid is the book legions of film fans have been waiting for.

Angel On My Shoulder

Born to legendary singer Nat King Cole in the halcyon days of the 1950s, Natalie Cole grew up to become a versatile and soulful singer whose talents catapulted her all the way to Grammy Award winning status. But that success came with a price. Dragged down by drugs, depression, and divorceand enduring everything from bankruptcy proceedings to surviving the ordeals of rehabNatalie realized she had spun out of control and was in grave danger of losing custody of her son. What follows is the inspirational and riveting story of her tremendous musical comeback.

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