Description:
Christopher Newman's short mystery Clean American Fun mixes greed, corruption, lust, and murder to create an interestingly wicked plot set smack dab in the middle of the American heartland. This down-home setting suits the everyman's voice of narrator and actor Darrel Larson just fine as he calmly spins Newman's murderous tale. The story begins as a ruthless English billionaire starts buying up property around Branson, Missouri, stepping on a lot of toes in the process. The local folks don't like this interloper one bit, and when the evidence in a particularly nasty murder points to the town's new and unwelcome neighbor, they like him even less. "The crime of which Hollister stood accused was heinous no matter how you sliced it: Amber Billingsley, a senior-to-be at Branson High, was found nude in a culvert near Table Rock Dam. Dead by strangulation." Before long, the media, politicos, and clergy stir things up, and it takes some serious sleuthing to uncover the whole sordid truth. Larson uses his voice to its fullest, giving a satisfactory performance. He sometimes struggles with some of the character's accents, but since Newman has thrown everyone from a backwater Bubba to a British aristocrat into his melting pot of a cast, few narrators wouldn't. (Running time: two hours, one cassette) --George Laney
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