Let's All Kill Constance

Let's All Kill Constance

Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	Ray Bradbury
Cover artist	José Luis Merino
Language	English
Genre	Detective/mystery
Publisher	William Morrow and Company
Publication date	December 2002
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardback and Paperback)
Pages	210 pp
ISBN	0-06-051584-8
OCLC	50079903
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 21
LC Class	PS3503.R167 L47 2003
Preceded by	A Graveyard for Lunatics

Let's All Kill Constance is a mystery novel by American writer Ray Bradbury, published in 2002. Narrated by an unnamed Los Angeles writer and set in 1960, it chronicles an unexpected visit from aging Hollywood actress Constance Rattigan who gives him two death lists of once-famous people — with Constance's name on one of them, and the gradual unraveling of the mystery by the narrator with the help of private investigator Elmo Crumley.

The narrator visits the listed people in order, all of whom die under mysterious circumstances shortly thereafter. Suspiciously, each of them claims to have met Constance, who always flees one step ahead of the narrator. Is Constance the true murderer, or is someone seeking to sever all ties to her associates before finally killing her?

Let's All Kill Constance is a sequel to Bradbury's Death Is a Lonely Business (1985) and A Graveyard for Lunatics (1990), and the final installment of his Hollywood Trilogy.

The novel references Ray Bradbury's better-known work, Fahrenheit 451, in chapter 16. In it, the protagonist muses on the possibility of people using books to start fires in the future.

Cover of a paperback reprint.

References

• Brown, Charles N.; William G. Contento. "The Locus Index to Science Fiction (2002)". Retrieved 2007-12-13.

External links

• Let's All Kill Constance title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database