title: Any Resemblance to Actual Persons: A Novel
author:  Kevin Allardice 
description: Community college adjunct English professor Paul McWeeney is outraged when he learns that his ditzy sister, Edie, is about to publish a book identifying their late father, TV screenwriter George McWeeney, as the murderer of Elizabeth Short, the iconic Black Dahlia, whose unsolved 1947 murder in Los Angeles spawned books and films. Edie credits her therapist with helping her recover repressed childhood memories that implicate her father. Paul resolves to use a two-week break between school terms to write a cease and desist letter to the publisher. What begins as a project filled with Olympian self-regard becomes an obsession that dives deep into the weeds of the Dahlia murder and also chronicles the dissolution of Pauls so-called life. Allardices first novel attempts many things as both crime story and character study and often succeeds. Its quite a funny book, by turns broad and sly, and occasionally, its shocking, as when Paul uses Ritalin to face grading students assignments and later upgrades to cocaine for energy and clarity. Through it all, though, we empathize with his travail. --Thomas Gaughan
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  By
  
  
  Zachariah Dracoulis
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Echo Online 2 Copyright © 2019 by Zachariah Dracoulis. All Rights Reserved.  
    
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by
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  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents
  either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely
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  For Darcie,
  
  
  Keep yeetin’ on those yoters.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  B eing a good person sucks ass so