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Murder by the Book 1987

Writer D. H. Mercer becomes so absorbed in his own material that his hard‑boiled private‑eye creation, Biff Deegan, appears to him as an incessant hallucination. Determined to replace Biff with a more civilized detective, Mercer is pulled into an actual mystery involving art fraud, murder and a beautiful woman in peril.

Writer D. H. Mercer becomes so absorbed in his own material that his hard‑boiled private‑eye creation, Biff Deegan, appears to him as an incessant hallucination. Determined to replace Biff with a more civilized detective, Mercer is pulled into an actual mystery involving art fraud, murder and a beautiful woman in peril.

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No!

Murder by the Book does not have end credit scenes. You can leave when the credits roll.

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