Goodbye Mr Hollywood

by John Escott, Tricia Hedge, Jennifer Basset (Series Editor)

Nick Lortz is sitting outside a cafe in Whistler, a village in the Canadian mountains, when a stranger comes and sits next to him. She's young, pretty and has a beautiful smile. Nick is happy to sit and talk with her.

But why does she call Nick "Mr Hollywood"? Why does she give him a big kiss when she leaves? And who is the man at the next table - the man with short white hair?

Nick learns the answers to these questions three long days later - in a police station on Vancouver Island.

Genres: Fiction, English Literature, Audiobook, School

56 pages, Paperback

First published November 6, 1997

About the author

John Escott started by writing children's books and comic scripts, but now writes and adapts books for students of all ages. He especially enjoys writing crime and mystery thrillers, and is a member of the British Crime Writers Association.

With Oxford University Press John has published London for the Oxford Bookworms Factfile series; Agatha Christie, Woman of Mystery, Star Reporter, Girl on a Motorbike, The Fly and Other Horror Stories, and The Scarlet Letter for the Oxford Bookworms Library series; The Magician, Time for a Robbery, Star for a day, Tomorrow's Girl, and The Man with Three NAMEs for the Hotshot Puzzles series; and A Pretty Face for the Dominoes series.

Reviews

[Venüs · Rating 4 out of 5]

İngilizce olarak okuduğum ilk kitap.. Ödev olarak okudum ama güzeldi çevirmek ve özet çıkarmak zorunda olduğum için sindire sindire okudum.. hikaye kitabı olmasına rağmen heyecanlıydı (:

[Eglė · Rating 2 out of 5]

When you have nothing else to read by your side. Keeps you busy for a half an hour.

[Yumi · Rating 4 out of 5]

1.GOODBYE MR HOLLYWOOD/OXFORD/Level1
2.60minutes
3.travel writer, "mistery girl", "Mr. Hollywood", a man with white hair, shooting, millionaire's daughter, police station
4.when someone tries to kill you, how do you do?- I run away somewhere far, ask police help.
5.it was very exciting story. I felt nervous when a man with white hair tried to kill Nick.

[Serpil · Rating 3 out of 5]

First english book. Done!

[Maribel · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really like it!

[Fatoomdarwish · Rating 3 out of 5]

كتاب خفيف ومسلي يناسب فئة الناشئة جيدة للقراءة الخفيفة انهيته في جلسه واحدة

[Noriho Motokawa · Rating 4 out of 5]

1. oxford 1
2. 5/26=90
3. Canada stranger Nick call Mr.Hollywood question answer
4. a)She smiled at him. It was a nice smile. But Nick knew all about nice smiles and he walked quickly out of the restaurant.
b) Nick is cautious of beautiful woman because he was implicated in a troble. I think the experience was traumatic for him.
5. At first, the story was strange and I could not understand what Mistery girl wants to do. The end of story, Nick could understand all mistery and reason why he was implicated in a troble but it was not related to Nick at all. I think he was unlucky.

[Abrar Alarjan · Rating 2 out of 5]

It is just story about man and woman .

[Ali ihsan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad

[Tania]

Normally these stories are a cutdown of a bigger story but in this case I think it is a standalone. The plot is not so complex that an emerging reader would struggle.

[Ola · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nie miało to zbytnio sensu XD

[Nathnael Terefe · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's my childhood book and the first-ever book I ever read. I gave it a go again. Not so much of a deep story, but I loved it.

[Monteiro · Rating 1 out of 5]

Functional for what it's and not my style

[carolina · Rating 3 out of 5]

book for english class~

[schrödinger’s cat · Rating 2 out of 5]

Just good to read for 80 minutes when you have nothing else to do. It was really dull for me

[KianHmz · Rating 3 out of 5]

چون زبان اصلی بود شیرین بود. برای منی که انگلیسیم قد نمی‌ده به هر کتابی خوندن.

[alperen0nen · Rating 4 out of 5]

The end was frustrating for me, but overall, it was good. It can be read.

[Rosentine Castro · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed a short read. Expected for a twist but nothing in return

[Leah · Rating 2 out of 5]

yeah…idk got it for free from my schools library. It’s obviously not really supposed to be really entertaining or anything, it’s just to study English. Something you can mindlessly read for 30 min.

[Joanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoy this series. This was a good addition. The local color, the characters and the plot all good.

[Denner Martins · Rating 1 out of 5]

Shittiest story in the world

[東雲 才一 · Rating 3 out of 5]

I recommend this book for beginners of English because the English is easy to understand!

[Mai · Rating 4 out of 5]

5400 words

[Naohiro Hotta · Rating 4 out of 5]

1. John Escott. Oxford Bookworms. Level1
2. 80 monuits
3. help, kill, deliberately, aim, false, love, revenge
4. Q. Have you ever lie about yourself to escape your dangerous, for example, your mom's angry?
If you have done, what was it?
A. In my case, when I come back my house late because of playing with my friend too much, sometimes I lie to my mom. It was a lie that our train or bus was a little delayed.
5. For me this book was easy for me to read, however, I was a little confused while reading this book because there were some names. Actually, I'm not good at remembering each chatacter's name. That's why sometimes I read back to the first page and confirmed the name. In regard to this story, at the end of this story, actually a person who tried to kill the main character because of making a false is because they really want to revenge, however, he made a mistake.

[Mizuki Touda · Rating 3 out of 5]

1. Oxford Level 1

2. 04/16 = 50 minutes 04/17 = 80 minutes

3. Nick
Mr Holly wood
Kiss
Mystery
Gun
Detective
Wrong

4.a
When Nick was in a café, a stranger who is a pretty and beautiful comes and sits next to him. But Nick doesn’t know her. When she leaves the café, she calls Nick “Mr Hollywood” and gives him kiss. Since then, Nick has some troubles. Nick is nearly killed by a man who has white hair and tall. Why does Nick have some trouble? Why a stranger does call “Mr Hollywood”? You are able to know about that by reading this book!

b
I wanted to know this story’s true soon while I read this book. Therefore, it made me excited.

5. As I said I like this story. However, sometimes it was difficult for me to understand what this story wants to say because there are many characters in this book. But I enjoyed reading it.

[Takuma Kusagawa · Rating 4 out of 5]

1. OXFORD, Level1

2. 4/22=80minutes

3. mystery girl,Mr.Hollywood,Nick,Tronto,Vancouver,kill,detective

4. Mstery girl said"Do you remember me? We met at a party in Tronto." Nick said"I'm Nick. But we
didn't meet at party in Tronto. I don't go to parties very often, and never in Tronto.

5. I think that this book includes contents of mistery, so I was interestend in reading this book.
A main character met some accident, but this story comes to happy ending.

[Ryota Kato]

1.John Escott Level1
2.5/21=10min
3.Nick, Mr hollywood, kiss, mystery, gun, detective, wrong,
4. "Excuse me,"somebody said. "Can I sit with you?" And he walked quickly out of the restaurant.
Because this passage expect to involve a man in an accident again.
5.I thought that this book express human relations, so sometimes I confused.
I'm sorry, I couldn't concentrate on reading this book, so it took long time to read.

[Yuki Kato · Rating 4 out of 5]

1. Oxford / level1

2. 80minutes

3. Mr Hollywood, man, Nick, cafe, hotel, Vancouver, Mystery girl

4. I don't like the paragraph that Nick is sitting at a cafe and a stranger who sits next to him kissed him.
I did not understand that meaning.

5. I thought this story was interesting because I can not image the story and the end of it was good. I want to read this book again. Nick was poor in this story, I think.

[Daisuke Hamamoto]

John Escott 1

80 minutes

nick pretty beautiful hollywood cafe kiss vancouver

I liked this book
stranger girl kissed him on the mouse

It was like fantastic and interesting and eaay to read. Especially story was strange.

[Huda Aweys · Rating 3 out of 5]

Even it was just another teaching storey , but it was a good one ! .. I liked it :) , it was an interesting detective story and I like this kind of novels in general ...
It was short, simple and had a worth main idea so .. !