Death Scene
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Publisher Description
Detective Chief Inspector Henry Johnstone is summoned to investigate the murder of a silent movie star in this compelling historical mystery.
1928. A rising star of the silent screen, Cissie Rowe had a bright future ahead of her in the new talking pictures. Not any more. Cissie had died, tragically, many times on screen – but this time it’s for real.
When Cissie is found brutally murdered in her own home, DCI Henry Johnstone and DS Mickey Hitchens are despatched to the seaside town of Shoreham-by-Sea to investigate. Famed for the quality of its light, Shoreham is home to a film studio and thriving theatrical community. But who among them would want the popular young actress dead?
The two London detectives soon discover that no one, including the victim, is quite what they seem – and that the make-believe continues both on and off the famous glasshouse stage.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in 1928, Adams's elegantly written sequel to The Murder Book takes intelligent, introspective Det. Chief Insp. Henry Johnstone and his genial sergeant, Mickey Hitchens, to Shoreham-by-Sea on England's south coast to investigate the murder of Cissie Rowe, a rising star in the film industry. Cissie was found dead in the bedroom of her modest home in Bungalow Town, an isolated Shoreham neighborhood that's a veritable dormitory for the nearby film studio. When one of her lovestruck admirers turns up brutally murdered a few days later in his home just up the beach from Cissie's, Johnstone and Hitchens are certain there's a connection. As they dig deeper into the past of the beautiful young actress, they discover disturbing elements that have shaped her life in surprising ways. Adams smoothly integrates information about the police force between the wars (pay, hierarchy, development of forensic science) into the well-crafted plot.
