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Audio-play written by Hal Glatzer from a novel by Hannah Dobryn - Performed by a full cast - Dramatized Fiction - 4 CASSETTES - 6 hours

Publisher, Audio-Playwrights (September 2000)

2001 Audio Publisher's Association Audie Award Winner - ACHIEVEMENT & INNOVATION IN PRODUCTION

Publisher's Weekly says "Truly outstanding." Received their 'Listen Up Award 2000'

Too Dead To Swing is an original murder mystery on audiotape. It's 1940, and musician Katy Green gets what ought to be a dream gig: playing with the Ultra Belles -- an all-female Swing band on tour in California. Every band has troubles, but Katy soon discovers that somebody's out for blood!

The large cast of Broadway actors includes three Tony Award nominees: Susan Egan (Beauty & the Beast, Cabaret) is Katy Green; Harry Groener (Cats, Oklahoma, Crazy For You) portrays the band's songwriter; and singer Ann Hampton Callaway -- currently starring in the revue Swing! -- performs the songs in Too Dead To Swing.

Those songs are: Walking On Eggshells -- an uptempo dance number with a 'solid-four' beat; Remember To Forget -- a wistful ballad of lost love; and Yours Till Dawn -- a rather intellectual paean to the one-night stand.

Also in the cast are Broadway veterans Simon Jones (Waiting in the Wings, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), Bernie McInerney (The Rainmaker), and Patti Mariano (Music Man, George M.). And there's a cameo appearance by Barbara Rosenblat, the award-winning narrator of many audiobook mysteries.

About the Author: Hal Glatzer has long been ahead of the technology curve in producing mystery fiction:

His 1979 novel Kamehameha County, a tale of murder and mayhem in Hawaii, was published as a pastiche manila file-folder of newspaper clippings, letters and telex dispatches.

The Trapdoor, published by Paperjacks in 1986, is a paperback thriller about a computer hacker whose identity is stolen by organized crime, and whose only ally is an online pornographer. This, a whole decade before the Internet, identity theft and cyberporn were front-page news.

After Paperjacks folded he self-published the sequel in one of the earliest "eBook" ventures. Massively Parallel Murder was released in 1992: the first chapter downloadable free from a Web site, and the entire text sold as a computer (.PDF) file on a floppy disk.

Glatzer is an active member of Mystery Writers of America who knows high-tech, having covered the computer industry as a journalist for twenty years. But he's an antiquarian at heart: serving as a director of the Art Deco Society of California, playing vintage jazz and Swing on guitar, and curating a collection of sheet music from Tin Pan Alley.

Now he's combined all these interests to create Too Dead To Swing : a murder mystery presented on audio tape with a full cast, sound effects, Swing music and songs. Glatzer also produced the content for the Web site, which serves as the theatrical playbill for this audio-play.