What Nigel Knew, by Field, Evan (pseudonym for Joy Gould Boyum and Marjorie Rosen)
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What Nigel Knew, by Field, Evan (pseudonym for Joy Gould Boyum and Marjorie Rosen). Clarkson N. Potter: New York, 1981. Edition: First edition stated with full number line. ISBN: 0517544687. Hardcover, 8vo, 264 pages. Quarter bound in black over red cloth; silver lettering on spine. Cover art by Edward Gorey.

Condition: Near Fine in a Very Good, unclipped jacket. Spine ends bumped. Jakcet shows light wear at spine ends.

Contents: Publisher's Note:

The meanest and most powerful gossip columnist n the country isfound strangled with his own typewriter ribbon in a screening room at the New York Film Festival. Whodunnit? The whole fim community hated Nigel Whitty, and any one of the eleven people in the room with him at the time could easily have done him in -- with great pleasure.

Evan Field is a pseudonym for two well known writers on film. Their combined credentials include a regular column on film for a large-circulation newspaper, articles in many national magazines, professorship at a major university, and authorship of several books and screenplays.

In a review by Newgate Callendar of The New York Times: A different kind of humor is in WHAT NIGEL KNEW by Evan Field. Evan Field is the pseudonym of two veteran film writers, who have a lot to get out of their system. Which they do, in a book that verges on slapstick farce. They poke fun at literary film criticism, at the egos of movie stars and ballet dancers, at newspaper people, at the movie industry, at public relations types. Nigel is a venomous gossip columnist who gets strangled by his own typewriter ribbon at a preview in Alice Tully Hall. Most likely ''What Nigel Knew'' is a roman a clef, and the authors have a lot of fun going after the phonies. It's also a traditional murder mystery, with a nice cop, a lively news magazine girl (they have a romance), and a big final confrontation on the stage of a crowded Radio City Music Hall. The book is frothy, wonderfully exaggerated and charming.