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LEADING LADY
2008 Hammett Prize
and Foreword Magazine Finalist. Bronze Medal winner of the Independent Publishing Award for Mystery/Thriller of the Year.

LEADING LADY (Book)
An escaped con out for revenge. A super spy on a secret mission. A mafia captain who has to kill or be killed. And a young actress who has to give the performance of her life- just to stay alive. Their lives collide on a cold winter’s day in New York in this new thriller.

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LEADING LADY (Audiobook)
Tolmitch Productions presents a dramatized audiobook with a full cast and original music. Written and directed by Heywood Gould. Starring Richard Portnow, Beege Barkette.

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MY FIRST PHYSICAL/Part 1
A NOTE FROM A SHRINK

It's 1962 and I'm in a boho Garden of Eden.

I live in a sub basement in Greenwich Village. "The coolest place in the world," my friends from Brooklyn say. The super lets me tap into his electricity and use his phone. His wife takes messages for me. "You should call your mother," she says. I feed his two cats. They kill mice and leave them outside my door. I never take cabs or go to fancy restaurants. I live on diner food, peanut butter and jelly and chocolate milk.

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I AM HELD HOSTAGE BY THE MOB/Part 2
ARTIE'S AMAZING STORY

One shiny suit takes my car keys. The other pokes me with a hairy finger. "Go." They walk me down a dark, narrow ramp, bumping me back and forth between them. My legs buckle, my mouth goes dry. They breathe hard like they're angry. I am sickened by the sour combo of coffee, cigarettes and Bay Rhum. Are they taking me somewhere for a beating?

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I AM HELD HOSTAGE BY THE MOBS

It's 1962. Uncle Sam has been threatening me with fines and imprisonment if I don't report for my Army physical. Now he suddenly grants me a reprieve. I get a letter from the Selective Service Agency postponing my examination for sixty days."The System rules by caprice," explains Morris Krieger, the Anarchist sage of Union Square Park. "It maintains power by keeping the people in a constant state of anxious uncertainty..."Willie Mangelli, night manager at Riverside Memorial Chapel on Park Circle in Brooklyn, has a different take.

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DRAFTED/Part 1

I AM STALKED BY UNCLE SAM

It's 1962 and the State is closing in on me.

A few months after my eighteenth birthday I get a letter from the Selective Service Agency, enclosing a draft card, registering me for military service, with the command: "You must carry this on your person at all times."

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