The Edith Wharton
Signatures
from
Lev Raphael, author of The Edith Wharton Murders and
the accompanying coffee-table book, What's So Funny About
Edith Wharton? (with a foreword by Joyce
Christmas)
from Lev "Lets Get" Raphael,
author of The UPS Murders, a slow-moving
thriller.
from Lev Raphael, author of
The Edith Wharton Murders, currently being filmed as
a made-for-TV epic with Valerie Bertinelli.
from Lev Raphael, author of
The Edgar Winter Murders, a 70s rock-thriller. Catch
the cast album with covers of EW songs by Lou Reed and
Gloria Gaynor.
from Lev Raphael, author of
The Eudora Welty Murders, a book combining the
naturalism of SIster Carrie with the supernaturalism of
Carrie.
from Lev Raphael, author of
The Edna St. Vincent Millay Murders, in which a
candle burning at both ends is the murder weapon.
from Lev Raphael, author of
The Edith Wharton Murders, a real book, I
think.
Thank you... for your warm
recent reviews of The Edith Wharton Murders. Demi
Moore was slated to play EW in the film version, then Glenn
Close, then Ashley Judd. Shari Lewis (without Lambchop) is
the current lead. Does this sound like a doomed production
or what?
from Lev Raphael, author of
The Anna Karenina Caper, in which AK doesn't really
die (it was a double), but moves to Omaha to open a blini
stand and finds hilarious fun and crime on the wild
frontier. Soon to be a major motion picture with Whoopi
Goldberg.
from Lev Raphael, author of
The St. Hilda's Slayings, a medieval thriller in
which a fiery but demure abbess performs miracles, solves
crimes, and builds a sauna.
from Lev Raphael, author of
The Midlist Murders, a literary woo-woo thriller
starring Jill Patton Walsh as the ghost of Dorothy L.
Sayers.
from Lev Raphael, author of
The Whartonist, an homage to Caleb Carr about modern
scholarly evil in the academy of Old New England.
from Lev Raphael, whose next
book is The Geneticist, a rambunctious but dark
thriller starring Gregor Mendel and Czar Nicholas II on the
track of a brutal serial killer: Satan of the Steppes. Soon
to be a major motion picture with Val Kilmer and Uma Thurman
playing each other.
from Lev Raphael, whose next
book, The Essayist, is about a serial killer of
English professors who leaves quotations from Lionel
Trilling on their dusty academic corpses.
from Lev Raphael, author of
The Demon Reviewers, a witty horror-mystery that's a
cross between Stephen King and Jane Austen, soon to be a
weekly series on TNC, The Nudnik Channel.
from Lev Raphael, author of
Who The Hell Is Edith Wharton?, an homage to G.M.
Ford.
from Lev Raphael, author of
the new mystery Wharton, an homage to Parnell
Hall.
from Lev Raphael, author of
The Man with a Load of Wharton, an homage to Martha
Grimes.
from Lev Raphael, author of
The Man Who Read Lots of Wharton, an homage to David
Handler.
from Lev Raphael, author of
Snow Falling On Wharton, a thriller in which Edith
Wharton's Swedish vacation turns into a nightmare of
vengeance, betrayal, treachery, and lutefisk.
from Lev Raphael, author of
Edith Wharton's Sense Of Snow, a Berkshires mystery
soon to be a PBS special with Ashley Judd as Wharton and
Quentin Tarantino as Henry James.
from Lev Raphael, author of
The Wharton Throw, part-homage to Steven Saylor, in
which a rare Roman coverlet in EW's home at Lenox is the key
to a conspiracy involving international duvet smuggling--and
murder!
from Lev Raphael, author of
The Edith Wharton Murders, a musical with Skeet
Ulrich directed by David Brinkley. You'll laugh! You'll cry!
You'll skim Ethan Frome!
from Lev Raphael, author of
The Edith Wharton Murmurs, a book full of heart.
from Lev Raphael, author of
the mystery-thriller The Edith Wharton Mummies, in
which restoration work on EW's home in Lenox, MA reveals
stolen sarcophagi and an ancient curse that leads to--death!
from Lev Raphael, author of
The Edith Wharton Mounties, a thriller about a rogue
group in the RCMP obsessed by Michelle Pfeiffer in "The Age
of Innocence."
from Lev Raphael, author of
The Wharton Covenant, a thriller in which Wharton
scholars take over the MLA in a bid for world (academic)
domination. Amanda Cross meets Robert Ludlum.
from Lev Raphael, author of
The Edith Wharton Mommies, in which murder stalks a
suburban reading group devoted to American women writers,
and what you smell from the kitchen isn't goulash but evil:
Jill Churchill meets Agatha Christie.
from Lev Raphael, author of
"W" Is For Wharton, an attempt to head Sue Grafton
off at the pass.
from Lev Raphael, author of
Wharton in the Garden of Good and Evil.
from Lev Raphael, author of
The Edith Wharton Murmurs, a quiet little thriller.
from Lev Raphael, author of
The Edith Wharton Mumus, a thriller set in Hawaii
during EW and Henry James's secret trip there to attempt the
overthrow of American rule.
from Lev Raphael, author of
The Sigourney Weaver Murders, in which the actor
finds herself pursued by a serial killer thinking he's an
Alien.
from Lev Raphael, author of
The Edith Wharton Song Book, featuring "Shall We
Gather By The River (Seine)."
from Lev Raphael, author of
"All the Way to Wharton," a Mott the Hoople-style
jazz oratorio, soon to be performed on Austin City Limits by
George Clinton, David Byrne, and Cassandra Wilson.
from Lev Raphael, author of
The Edith Wharton Memos, a the literary/business
thriller in which chaos descends on Scribners when long lost
memos about EW's sales figures appear in a forgotten
safe.
from Lev Raphael, author of
The Edith Wharton Remakes, in which crazed academics
re-write EW's gloomier novels in an attempt to sabotage book
stores everywhere.
from Lev Raphael, author of
The Edith Wharton Entries, in which a librarian
battles a psychotic patron who adds pornographic notes to
the EW cards in her beloved catalog.
from Lev Raphael, author of
The Edith Wharton Murders, soon to be a
gender-bending film with Cyndi Lauper playing Nick and
Sigourney Weaver playing Stefan.
from Lev Raphael, author of
Wharton, a historical novel in which the famed lady
authoress foils a plot to assassinate President Wilson.
from Lev Raphael, author of
The Edith Wharton Murders, soon to be a John Woo film
that captures the explosive side of Mrs. Wharton.
from Lev Raphael, author of
The Edith Wharton Murders, currently being filmed as
a Wes Craven rip-off with Gina Gershon as Wharton. See
slashing wit turn deadly!
from Lev Raphael, author of
The Morton Fullerton Murders, in which EW's sultry
lothario does more carnal damage in pre-WW I Paris than
Frank Sinatra did in his day (and night).
The Edith Wharton
Signatures
All text copyright © 1997-2009 by Lev Raphael.
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