Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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Cliff undertakes many of the courses needed to better understand the art of murder and how to effectively target those who deserve to be extinguished. Holmes has spent his share of time on Hollywood studio backlots, first while working with Barbra Streisand, an early benefactor, and then on movies and TV shows. Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes is presented as a handbook written by Dean Harbinger Harrow of McMasters Conservatory and details the experiences of three students from the graduating class – aeronautics engineer Cliff Iverson (whose anonymous sponsor remains a mystery revealed at the end of the story), hospital employee Gemma Lindley and Dulcie Mown (alias for Hollywood diva Doria Maye) - each of whom seeks to execute a sanctioned deletion of their respective employer/boss.

The writing drew me in from the beginning and the personalities of the characters were established rather quickly and easily.I was constantly blown away by the cleverness of the narrator and the depth of comedic knowledge they presented the murderous education in. And because each student has got their own specific motives and challenges, the methods differ for each “deletion”.

The McMasters Conservatory is a secretly located college, where you can go to learn the various arts needed to carry out murder, but only if your intended victim is someone that the world will be a better place without! Harbinger warns from the start that not all three students will succeed in their respective missions, fostering a sense of mystery surrounding who fails, why they fail, and how spectacularly. Or they fail, in which case they are humanely killed and leave in an attractive casket containing their ashes. Mostly, the content was interesting but it was about 20% too long, which I only mention because there were pages of background that while helpful and important detracted from the pace and action.We also follow two of his other classmates, Gemma and Doria, as they learn the skills to both murder their own employers and to avoid getting murdered themselves. I read that the people who designed the stuff, they took a thousand model airplane kits and just glued tons and tons, thousands of little details onto the hull so that as you go in and in you keep seeing more detail and more detail and you thought, 'Well, this must be real.

It felt a bit gimmicky and it took a while until I realized there was actually a story here, and not an actual guide (a tweak in the description could help).Wonderful idea, lacked execution, and the last section feels like it was a cut chapter the author insisted on including, rather than a proper ending. And Dulcie Mown is a Hollywood actress who is being denied good parts because she not only refused to sleep with the studio boss, but chose to sleep with someone else. esmemoria on “What the stories never said: at the end of the day, if a man wants to kill you, he kills you. Meaning it's mainly just characters describing a lot of what happens around them (hence the massive amounts of details describing A LOT of things), instead of them describing themselves, their character or their feelings.

With all of the detailing and overtly explaining how they all learned and planned their murders - the methods were smart, don't get me wrong - it became kind of repetitive. His fellow class-mates Gemma Lindley and Doria Maye have their own reasons and motives for wanting to delete (i.In addition to murder, someone is punished by making it seem as though he liked to have sex with men who dress as women.