The Face On The Cutting Room Floor: Stan Cutler

Goodman-Bradley II. Rayford Goodman (still-tough-at-fifty-something macho detective) and Mark Bradley (thirty-something, gay, hip writer) are as opposite as cat and mouse. But when it comes to murder, no other pair can match wits with this Hollywood odd couple. It all begins when Goodman gets invited - by the business end of a .38 - to 'return a favour' for a mob boss: to guard three-time Oscar winning director Claudio Fortunata, recuperating from cosmetic surgery in an elegant Beverly Hills hotel. Ironically, Bradley's next assignment is to write the great Fortunata's steamy biography. Instead of finding a 'nip and tuck' superstar, Goodman and Bradley find a bullet-ridden corpse whose face was used for target practice. But is the dead man Fortunata? From the back lots of Hollywood to the back rooms of dirty deals, Goodman and Bradley of a twisted killer who is giving a whole new meaning to 'makeovers...'