Stein, Stoned: A Harry Stein Soft-boiled Murder Mystery

A soft-boiled detective story where The Big Lebowski meets Fletch.

In the sixties, Harry Stein was the foremost authority on cannabis, writing a book on indoor cultivation and inventing thirteen different hybrids. Nowadays, he stays straight to keep joint custody of his daughter. But when a crop of "orchids" goes missing, Stein must re-enter the haze he thought he'd left behind.

Hal Ackerman has been on the faculty of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television for the past twenty-four years. His book Write Screenplays That Sell . . . The Ackerman Way, is in its third printing.