KILLING SPREE is an audacious take and twist on the patron-protege storyline. Derek Ferguson is a young novelist who writes a play to star his fabled idol of stage and screen, Marguerite Courtney, with a part for Derek's girl friend Ashley to play Marguerite's granddaughter. Derek entreats his mentor Barry Logan, a powerful producer of musicals, to network for him. Barry being jealous of Derek, forms a cabal with Marguerite to enlist a famous playwright, Philip Reynolds, to plagiarize Derek's play. When the ripped-off version appears on Broadway, Derek and Ashley recognize it bears a parallel...