No sale
By: Patrick Conrad ; translated from the Dutch by Jonathan Lynn
Contributors: Lynn, Jonathan
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781904738978
Subjects: Motion pictures; Murder; College teachers; Study and teaching; Film noir; Fiction
Work titles: Starr
Description: "For Victor Cox, a professor of film history, the Hollywood films noirs of the 1940s and 1950s are more real than his daily life. When his wife is found drowned, Cox is the first murder suspect. He falls in love with a student who looks like the 1920s film star Louise Brooks, but she disappears at a Belgian seaside resort. Smeared in lipstick in their hotel room are the words "No Sale," the same words Elizabeth Taylor wrote on a mirror in Butterfield 8. Subsequently, a series of gruesome killings of young women, all modeled on violent deaths in films that he knows and loves, lead the police back to Cox, who starts to doubt his own sanity and innocence."--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Translation from Dutch of: Starr.

"First published in Dutch as Starr by Houtekiet, Antwerp, 2007"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: pt. 1. Starr Mortensen; title: pt. 2. Starr faithfull; title: pt. 3. Starr Baker.