Title: Beverly Hills dead
Description: Rick Barron, a former Beverly Hills cop and now a top-ranking executive of a Hollywood movie studio, finds his glamorous starlet wife and close associates under investigation when a screenwriter friend is targeted by the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Subjects: United States, Motion picture industry, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities, Police, Fiction, nyt:mass-market-paperback=2008-09-28, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Beverly hills (calif.), fiction
Places: Beverly Hills (Calif.), Beverly Hills, California, Los Angeles