<p><strong>THE FLYING SAUCER MURDER CASE</strong></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>August 1953 &ndash; The shamelessly <em>noir </em>Los Angeles<em> Mirror </em>Headlines &ndash; Probing Sen. McCarthy, Racy Dr. Kinsey, the Riveting Barbara Graham Murder Trial, POWs finally returning from Korea, UFOs in Hollywood! Sex and Death!</strong></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>George Tirebiter, a 1940&rsquo;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.&nbsp; In 1953, he owns the modest Rose-Bud Bungalow Court near USC and looks after his tenants.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>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.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Also appearing &ndash; Main St. strippers, flying saucer abductees and tall blue Venusians! &nbsp;Sgt. Cummings of the Death Squad and B-Movie gangsters!&nbsp; An LP record from Outer Space, a screenland billionaire named Howard, Lenny Bruce and Marilyn Monroe!&nbsp; The Ultimate Ear-Bomb Weapons Test!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>David Ossman</strong> has chronicled the Hollywood adventures of George Tirebiter since George&rsquo;s debut in 1970 as a character on The Firesign Theatre&rsquo;s third hit Columbia comedy album <strong>Don&rsquo;t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers</strong>.&nbsp; George ran (in person) for U.S. Vice President on the Surrealist Party ticket in 1976, starred in <strong>The Ronald Reagan Murder Case</strong>, a mystery thriller set in the Golden Age of Radio, and is featured in Ossman&rsquo;s memoir, <strong>Dr. Firesign&rsquo;s Follies</strong>.&nbsp; Ossman&rsquo;s new memoir, <strong>Fighting Clowns of Hollywood </strong>and <strong>Screenplay!</strong>, collecting two unproduced Firesign feature films, &ldquo;Odyssey&rdquo; and &ldquo;Saucer!&rdquo; with the story behind &ldquo;Zachariah,&rdquo; plus three additional collections of Firesign Theatre stage and radio scripts are all Bear Manor books.</p>