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Language English Publication date 1988 OCLC 45328078 Publisher Hodder & Stoughton | 3.4/5 Goodreads Series Rune Trilogy ISBN 0-340-79311-2 Originally published 1988 Genre Crime Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Followed by Death of a Blue Movie Star Nominations Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original Similar Works by Jeffery Deaver, Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manhattan Is My Beat is a novel by crime writer Jeffery Deaver. First published in 1988, it is the first book in the Rune Trilogy.
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Synopsis
Rune is a street-wise twenty-year-old, not long arrived in New York City, but she's already found herself a squat in an empty loft. She's also landed a job in a video store, Washington Square Video, that lets her pursue her interest in old movies; it's also where she meets Mr. Kelly, a lonely old man who rents the same tape over and over: a crime film based on a true story called Manhattan Is My Beat.
When Rune goes to visit him for a routine tape collection and finds him dead, the police suspect a robbery. However, Rune is convinced that the true answer to the mystery lies with the tape of Manhattan Is My Beat. This conviction draws her into a dangerous adventure against those who will stop at nothing to hide the truth and don't believe in Hollywood endings.
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Manhattan Is My Beat has been optioned by Double B Productions. The novel is being adapted by Double B Partners, John and Lisa Bishop.