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Author: Nicole Petit Publisher: 18thwall Productions ISBN: 9781946033079 Category : Languages : en Pages : 276
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It's a Rollicking Riot of Crime-Solving Fun! All your favorite stars pull on their deerstalkers and investigate! Adventurous Mysteries in the Tradition of Old Hollywood Award-winning curator Nicole Petit presents seven all-new mystery stories featuring the stars of Golden Age Hollywood. Basil Rathbone plays a game of deduction and death against a madman who is convinced he's as good as Sherlock Holmes. Errol Flynn crosses swords with men who take his star-power a bit too literally. Ginger Rogers, Lucille Ball, Jimmy Stewart, and Henry Fonda have a double date with murder in the legendary Coconut Grove. Shirley Temple pays a diplomatic visit to East Berlin as plans for a German super-communication device are stolen, and a little girl is caught in the crossfire. A paranoid director tasks Vincent Price with discovering why a dead man was found in his temple set. George Zucco's latest low-budget western is interrupted by murder - and the ancient cult that may have committed them. Margaret Rutherford tangles with ghosts and Nazis at a stately manor home where all may not be as it seems. Silver Screen Sleuths presents mystery stories in the style and tradition of Golden Age B-movie mysteries, starring the stars themselves. Curated by Nicole Petit and featuring stories by Josh Reynolds, Jon Black, Nicole Petit & James Bojaciuk, C.L. Werner, M.H. Norris, William Martin, & John Linwood Grant.
Author: Nicole Petit Publisher: 18thwall Productions ISBN: 9781946033079 Category : Languages : en Pages : 276
Book Description
It's a Rollicking Riot of Crime-Solving Fun! All your favorite stars pull on their deerstalkers and investigate! Adventurous Mysteries in the Tradition of Old Hollywood Award-winning curator Nicole Petit presents seven all-new mystery stories featuring the stars of Golden Age Hollywood. Basil Rathbone plays a game of deduction and death against a madman who is convinced he's as good as Sherlock Holmes. Errol Flynn crosses swords with men who take his star-power a bit too literally. Ginger Rogers, Lucille Ball, Jimmy Stewart, and Henry Fonda have a double date with murder in the legendary Coconut Grove. Shirley Temple pays a diplomatic visit to East Berlin as plans for a German super-communication device are stolen, and a little girl is caught in the crossfire. A paranoid director tasks Vincent Price with discovering why a dead man was found in his temple set. George Zucco's latest low-budget western is interrupted by murder - and the ancient cult that may have committed them. Margaret Rutherford tangles with ghosts and Nazis at a stately manor home where all may not be as it seems. Silver Screen Sleuths presents mystery stories in the style and tradition of Golden Age B-movie mysteries, starring the stars themselves. Curated by Nicole Petit and featuring stories by Josh Reynolds, Jon Black, Nicole Petit & James Bojaciuk, C.L. Werner, M.H. Norris, William Martin, & John Linwood Grant.
Author: Philippa Gates Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 0791481387 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 358
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Detecting Men examines the history of the Hollywood detective genre and the ways that detective films have negotiated changing social attitudes toward masculinity, heroism, law enforcement, and justice. Genre film can be a site for the expression and resolution of problematic social issues, but while there have been many studies of such other male genres as war films, gangster films, and Westerns, relatively little attention has been paid to detective films beyond film noir. In this volume, Philippa Gates examines classical films of the thirties and forties as well as recent examples of the genre, including Die Hard, the Lethal Weapon films, The Usual Suspects, Seven, Devil in a Blue Dress, and Murder by Numbers, in order to explore social anxieties about masculinity and crime and Hollywood's conceptions of gender. Up until the early 1990s, Gates argues, the primary focus of the detective genre was the masculinity of the hero. However, from the mid-1990s onward, the genre has shifted to more technical portrayals of crime scene investigation, forensic science, and criminal profiling, offering a reassuring image of law enforcement in the face of violent crime. By investigating the evolution of the detective film, Gates suggests, perhaps we can detect the male.
Author: Barbara Hambly Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd ISBN: 1448305462 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 234
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“You shall never have a penny of my money. Leave me alone or I will shoot you dead!” 1924. After six months in Hollywood, young British widow Emma Blackstone has come to love her new employer, glamourous movie-star Kitty Flint – even if her late husband’s sister is one of the worst actresses she’s ever seen. Looking after Kitty and her three adorable Pekinese dogs isn’t work Emma dreamed of, but Kitty rescued her when she was all alone in the world. Now, the worst thing academically-minded Emma has to worry about is the shocking historical inaccuracies of the films Kitty stars in. Until, that is, Rex Festraw – Kitty’s first husband, to whom she may or may not still be married – turns up dead in her dressing room, a threatening letter seemingly from Kitty in his pocket. Emma’s certain her flighty but kind-hearted sister-in-law has been framed. But who by? And why? From spiteful rivals to jealous boyfriends, the suspects are numerous. But as Emma investigates, she begins to untangle a deadly plot – and there’s something Kitty’s not telling her . . . This gripping first in a brand-new series from NYT-bestselling author Barbara Hambly brings the sights and sounds of Hollywood to life and is a perfect pick for fans of female-fronted historical mysteries set in the roaring twenties.
Author: Michael R. Pitts Publisher: Scarecrow Press ISBN: 9780810823457 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 366
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A sequel to the 1979 offering investigates such celluloid gumshoes as Mike Hammer, Miss Jane Marple, Philip Marlowe, Perry Mason, The Shadow, Sherlock Holmes, and The Whistler, as well as those with brief careers, including Kitty O'Day, Tony Rome, and Lord Peter Whimsey. Reveals the characters, the actors, the films, and the literary works that set off the whole chain of events. Includes dozens of movie stills and corrections to the base volume. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Terry Rowan Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1312308060 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 317
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The Comprehensive Film Guide to Amateur Sleuth, Detective & Police Stories of Film and Television. A look at the writers, Private Invetigators, Lawyers, and the Hollywood Personal that produced them, and other interesting stories that have Mystery and Intrigue.
Author: Anthony Shaffer Publisher: Samuel French, Inc. ISBN: 9780573640292 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 84
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The Music Box, Irving Berlin, Select Theatres Corporation, owners, Helen Bonfils, Morton Gottlieb, Michael White present Anthony Quayle, Donal Donnelly in "Sleuth," a new thriller by Anthony Shaffer, with Philip Farrar, Harold K. Newman, Roger Purnell, directed by Clifford Williams, designed by Carl Toms, lighting by William Ritman.
Author: Carolyn Keene Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101077115 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 193
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Blue bells will be singing horses! This strange message, attached to the leg of a wounded homing pigeon, involves Nancy Drew in a dangerous mission. Somewhere an elderly woman is being held prisoner in a mansion, and Nancy is determined to find and free her. Meanwhile, the young detective’s close friend, Helen, begs her to solve a second mystery. Helen’s grandparents, the Cornings, are frightened by a sinister wheel of blue fire that appears after dark in the woods outside their home at lonely Sylvan Lake. When Nancy discovers the significance of the eerie signal, she also learns that her two mysteries are connected.
Author: Melanie Rehak Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 015603056X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 387
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The brainchild of children's book mogul Edward Stratemeyer, Nancy Drew was brought to life by two women. In a century- spanning story Rehak traces their roles--and Nancy's--in forging the modern American woman.
Author: Nicole Petit
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Author: Philippa Gates
Author: Barbara Hambly
Author: Michael R. Pitts
Author: Terry Rowan
Author: Anthony Shaffer
Author: Carolyn Keene
Author: Melanie Rehak
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