Marshall Karp, an advertising executive who wrote award winning commercials (including the classic "Thank You, Paine Webber" campaign), left a career of interrupting television shows to write for them. He created "Everything's Relative," a CBS comedy starring Jason Alexander, moved on to become writer/producer for the NBC hit, "Amen," then served as writer/co-executive producer for ABC's "Baby Talk" starring George Clooney, and NBC's "Working It Out," starring Jane Curtin.

After writing hundreds of commercials, dozens of TV shows, a play (Squabbles), and a feature film (Just Looking) Karp fulfilled a lifelong fantasy by killing the people he worked with in Hollywood. In his novels only, of course.