BIG BOAT TO BYE-BYE, THE by Ellis Weiner - FIRST EDITION BOOK

New American Library NY: 2005 First edition, first printing, mint, new/unread in a flawless dustjacket, review copy materials laid-in. This time Pete's up to his baby blues inside the world of children's television. Sound adorable? Don't kid yourself. As Ingalls and his fast-talking, fast-thinking hottie assistant, Stephanie Constantino, discover, a preschool show like Playground Pals looks cute and educational on the tube, but in the studio it's a snake pit of intrigue and double-dealing where money and ambition collide, where you shouldn't necessarily trust the talking dog, and where everybody's somebody's puppet. The setup a DVD of dirty outtakes -- the Playground Pals characters saying and doing obscene things in between filming - falls into the hands of bad guys. The bad guys blackmail the producers. The producers hire Ingalls. Ingalls suspects everybody - and yet he has no evidence. Incompetence and hilarity ensue. Oh, and a person ends up dead. Deal with it. It's a mystery novel.