THE FLYING SAUCER MURDER CASE
August 1953 - The shamelessly
noir
Los Angeles
Mirror
Headlines - Probing Sen. McCarthy, Racy Dr. Kinsey, the Riveting Barbara Graham Murder Trial, POWs finally returning from Korea, UFOs in Hollywood! Sex and Death!
George Tirebiter, a 1940's radio and movie actor, was falsely blacklisted as a Red, but has continued working in the movie business (under various assumed names), as a sci-fi story and ad lib dialogue writer. In 1953, he owns the modest Rose-Bud Bungalow Court near USC and looks after his tenants.
The Rose-Bud has ten little bungalows, each with its own surprise, including an electrified chair in Number 3, a tranquil corpse in Number 7, a seductive nude model in Number 2, and George, the amateur sleuth himself, in Number 1, just across the way from the appealing TV producer in Number 10.
Also appearing - Main St. strippers, flying saucer abductees and tall blue Venusians! Sgt. Cummings of the Death Squad and B-Movie gangsters! An LP record from Outer Space, a screenland billionaire named Howard, Lenny Bruce and Marilyn Monroe! The Ultimate Ear-Bomb Weapons Test!
David Ossman
has chronicled the Hollywood adventures of George Tirebiter since George's debut in 1970 as a character on The Firesign Theatre's third hit Columbia comedy album
Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers
. George ran (in person) for U.S. Vice President on the Surrealist Party ticket in 1976, starred in
The Ronald Reagan Murder Case
, a mystery thriller set in the Golden Age of Radio, and is featured in Ossman's memoir,
Dr. Firesign's Follies
. Ossman's new memoir,
Fighting Clowns of Hollywood
and
Screenplay!
, collecting two unproduced Firesign feature films, "Odyssey" and "Saucer!" with the story behind "Zachariah," plus three additional collections of Firesign Theatre stage and radio scripts are all Bear Manor books.