GALBRAITH LITERARY PUBLISHERS PRESENTS
GEORGE ALBERT BROWN’S
WHO KILLED JERUSALEM?
A ROLLICKING LITERARY MURDER MYSTERY
BASED ON WILLIAM BLAKE’S CHARACTERS & IDEAS
UPDATED TO 1970s SAN FRANCISCO
A SEAMLESS MELDING OF
THE INTRICATE PLOTTING OF UMBERTO ECO
IN THE NAME OF THE ROSE,
THE SIDE-SPLITTING HUMOR OF JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE
IN A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES,
AND THE FABULOUS WORLD OF WILLIAM BLAKE
In 1977, Ickey Jerusalem, San Francisco’s golden-boy poet laureate (based on Blake), is found dead in a locked, first-class toilet on an arriving red-eye flight. Ded Smith, a desperately unhappy, intelligent philistine with a highly developed philosophy to match, is called in to investigate the poet’s death. Thus begins a series of hilarious encounters with the members of Jerusalem’s coterie (updated amalgams of characters from Blake’s work). Ded soon realizes that to find out what happened, he must not only collect his usual detective’s clues but also, despite his own poetically challenged outlook, get into the dead poet’s mind.
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Fighting his way through blasphemous funerals, drug-induced dreams, poetry-charged love-making, offbeat philosophical discussions, and much, much more, he begins to piece together Jerusalem’s (Blake’s) seductive, all-encompassing metaphysics. But by then, the attempts to kill Ded and the others have begun. Before Ded’s death-dodging luck runs out, will he be able to solve the case, and perhaps, in the process, develop a new way of looking at the world that might allow him to replace his unhappiness with joy?
“A BIG, JOYOUS BOOK, WORTH READING SIMPLY FOR THE FUN OF IT.”—BLUE INK REVIEW
“A ZANY, INVENTIVE, AND MULTILAYERED FEVER DREAM OF MURDER AND MAYHEM”—KIRKUS REVIEWS

Prizing – Prize Draws (Feb 6, 2023 – Sep 5, 2023)
Grand cash prize of $25,000
Grand Literary Trip prize, including roundtrip airfare to San Francisco for two nights at a luxury hotel, a tour of literary San Francisco with a San Francisco Poet Laureate, lunch with the author, and spending money1.
Monthly prizes of Visa Gift Cards worth $1,000
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Void where prohibited. Sponsor: Galbraith Literary Publishers Incorporated. Open to legal residents of Canada (excl. QC) & the U.S., 18+. Sweepstakes begins at 12:00:01 AM ET on 02/06/23 and ends at 11:59:59 PM ET on 09/06/23. Multiple entry dates apply. 2 Grand Prizes & 6 Monthly Prizes available. Individual prize ARV: $1,000 to $25,000 USD. Total ARV: $46,000 USD. Participation is subject to the Official Rules, available at https://www.whokilledjerusalemprizedraw.com/rules/.
1 - Commercial value $15,000
