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Dead at the Box Office: An Edie Koslow-Tony Del Plato Mystery

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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.

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!