{"first_publish_date": "1974", "title": "Death on the hour", "covers": [6293884], "subject_places": ["New York (N.Y.)"], "lc_classifications": ["PZ3.L81144 Dee", "PS3523.O245 Dee"], "key": "/works/OL3465122W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL577477A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Fiction in English", "Bernard Simmons (Fictitious character)", "Public prosecutors", "Fiction", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general", "Simmons, bernard (fictitious character), fiction", "New york (n.y.), fiction"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Clayton Carter was one of the best reporters in the business and head of IBC's news department. Even during his off-duty hours he carried his 'gimmick' \u2014 a tiny television set to monitor other IBC news programmes. Carter's gimmick did a good job of keeping him informed; it did an even better job of killing him when somebody tampered with it.\r\n\r\nAssistant District Attorney Bernie Simmons takes a personal interest in the subsequent investigation. Police Captain John Stein has his own theory about the killing. He's zeroing in on the estranged Mrs Carter and her gentleman friend, a vice-president of IBC \u2014 and Bernie agrees they had a motive in the money and IBC shares that Mrs Carter will inherit. But there are still too many unexplained detailssome telephone-tapping, a briefcase full of hundred-dollar bills, and a mystery man trying to pull off a baffling masquerade.\r\n\r\nThis deftly plotted and intriguing novel explores some timely topics: government pressure on the news media, invasion of privacy, and the acquisitive greed of large conglomerates."}, "series": [{"series": {"key": "/series/OL329035L"}, "position": "7"}], "latest_revision": 12, "revision": 12, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T03:39:16.392752"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-03-19T01:44:28.665300"}}