At the director’s call for the cameras to roll in a banker’s country house at Tarrytown, where a motion picture is being shot, the leading lady crumples to the floor. Summoned by the district attorney, Craig Kennedy and his narrator friend probe the jealousies, scripts and tangled motives of a silent-film company to learn what struck her down.
A murder mystery set in the early movie business, for fans of golden-age American detection. Download the free EPUB.