In 1940, Hollywood decided to pay homage to the small New Jersey town where Thomas Alva Edison had lived and worked for nearly fifty years. What better place to hold the World Premiere of Spencer Tracy's Edison, the Man? The idea seemed not only flawless but guaranteed to generate terrific press--until a series of sexual murders breaks out a week before the festivities are scheduled to begin. Already straddled with the ever-reticent Spencer Tracy and overly exuberant starlet Ann Rutherford, M.G.M. publicity girl Edie Koslow is forced to reluctantly hush the crimes and then just as reluctantly solve them in the the midst of studio manipulations and small town politics with only the help and protection of a local mystery man.
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"An ironically funny picture of the differences between west coast film executives and [an] east coast residential community..." -- The Essex Journal
"Dandola infuses a sense of humor about movie-making and the glamour and glitz associated with Hollywood." -- The Star-Ledger
"Dandola infuses a sense of humor about movie-making and the glamour and glitz associated with Hollywood." -- The Star-Ledger
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We are a small press with a limited advertising budget yet John Dandola's mystery novels have proven to be immensely popular on a regional basis simply by word of mouth. His historical research is as impeccable as his storytelling. Several foreign translations are already in the works and the screen rights for both Dead at the Box Office and Wind of Time have been optioned.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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"A thoroughly entertaining and solid mystery",
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This review is from: Dead at the Box Office: An Edie Koslow-Tony Del Plato Mystery (Paperback)
This is a thoroughly entertaining and solid mystery novel which not only gives the reader a vivid, sometimes humorous, picture of life in a small town during 1940 but also describes the lengths old-time Hollywood studios went to promote their movies. The premise is fascinating. The characters are well-drawn, very human, believable and engaging.
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VERY GOOD STUFF,
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This review is from: Dead at the Box Office: An Edie Koslow-Tony Del Plato Mystery (Paperback)
Engrossing, charming, nostalgic, a page turner, well paced, detailed, and a cliff hanger. What more can be said? From a genre point of view, this is a great combo of sleuths -- so much in any series, depends upon the empathy between the two detective types and the reader. Gossip about the rich and famous of another era fascinates me and the economy of the narrative almost suggests the motion picture world and its techniques. It's a fact that MGM actually held a World Premiere in West Orange, New Jersey, but it was a brilliant idea to set a mystery novel against all that pandemonium. This is very good stuff and it has everything that would make it into one heck of a movie. The newspapers reported a screen version was once in the works and that a script had been completed. I wonder what happened? This would be a terrific American installment to the PBS series MYSTERY!
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