"Some Like It Hot-Buttered"
All Elliot Freed wanted to do was to make people die laughing. But he didn’t mean it literally.
Death by popcorn was the cause. Poisoned popcorn. To the chagrin of the police, Elliot takes to his bike to start his own investigation. A growing attraction to a beautiful detective, the discovery of a DVD pirating operation, and one missing employee later, Elliot’s still waiting for the punch line. But this one might knock his theater—and Elliot—out for good…
Jeff Cohen is the nom de plume for Jeffrey Cohen, writer of
intentionally funny murder mysteries in the Double Feature and Aaron
Tucker series. He’s been writing for a (nominal) living since graduating
from Rutgers College during the Paleozoic Era,For Whom the Minivan Rolls, and the book was published by Bancroft Press in 2002. It was followed in the Aaron Tucker series by A Farewell to Legs and As Dog Is My Witness. Aaron returned in a 2011 short story, The Gun Also Rises, in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. The story won the Barry Award (at the Rock ‘N Roll Hall of Fame!) for best short story of 2012.
The Double Feature Mystery series from Berkley Prime Crime began with Some Like It Hot-Buttered, which introduced Elliot Freed and his all-comedy movie theater, Comedy Tonight. It was followed by It Happened One Knife and A Night at the Operation.
Under the name E.J. Copperman, Jeff writes the Haunted Guesthouse Mystery series, which began with Night of the Living Deed and continues with An Uninvited Ghost, Old Haunts, and Chance of a Ghost. The series will continue in November 2013 with The Thrill of the Haunt.
In his copious spare time, Jeff is an unaccomplished amateur guitar player, a fan of Major League Baseball, a graduate student and a teacher of screenwriting at Drexel University in Philadelphia. He’s also available for weddings and bar mitzvahs, but don’t expect an expensive gift.
Visit Jeff on Facebook and Twitter, and read him at Hey, There’s A Dead Guy In The Living Room, the most comprehensive blog on mystery writing. Besides Jeff Cohen (Monday’s blogger), you’ll see perspectives from literary agent Josh Getzler on Tuesdays, editor Lynne Patrick on Wednesdays, publisher Benjamin LeRoy on Thursdays, publicist Erin Mitchell on Fridays, bookseller Marilyn Thiele on Saturdays and librarian Jessy Randall on Sundays. Check in every day for something new on mysteries, books and publishing!
