Murder in disguise
Subtitle: a Roaring Twenties mystery
By: Mary Miley
Edition: First world edition.
Publisher: Severn House
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780727887146; 9781847518224
Subjects: Script clerks; Murder; Investigation; Nineteen twenties; Motion picture studios; Fiction
Description: "Employed by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford at their famous film studios, script girl Jessie Beckett has a reputation as a skilled amateur sleuth. So when a projectionist is shot dead at the movie theatre where he worked, his grieving widow asks Jessie if she can find out who killed him, and why. Who was the mysterious man in the red coat who fired three shots at Joe Petrovitch? And how could he vanish from the balcony with no trace? To find the answers, Jessie must delve into the dead man's history and uncover dark secrets rom another continent and another era. As she is to discover, the past has a long reach."--book jacket