Script for Scandal
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Publisher Description
Sleuthing duo Lillian Frost and Edith Head investigate a behind-the-scenes scandal in this delightful Golden Age of Hollywood mystery.
1939, Los Angeles. Lillian Frost is shocked when her friend, glamorous costume designer Edith Head, hands her the script to a new film that's about to start shooting. Streetlight Story is based on a true crime: the California Republic bank robbery of 1936. Lillian's beau, LAPD detective Gene Morrow, was one of the officers on the case; his partner, Teddy, was tragically shot dead.
It seems the scriptwriter has put Gene at the centre of a scandal, twisting fact with fiction - or has he? With Gene reluctant to talk about the case, the movie quickly becoming the hottest ticket in town, a suspicious death on the Paramount studio lot and the police reopening the investigation into Teddy's death, Lillian is determined to find answers. Can Lillian and Edith uncover the truth of what happened that fateful day and clear Gene's name?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Patrick's well-paced third 1930s Hollywood mystery (after 2017's Dangerous to Know), Oscar-winning costume designer Edith Head slips her friend Lillian Frost, social secretary to a starstruck millionaire, the script of a film based on a real bank robbery that was committed three years before. According to the script, the robbery was conceived by a police detective, whose partner was killed in pursuit of the thieves. The dirty cop is called Jim Morris, who may be based on Gene Morrow, Lillian's police officer gentleman friend who investigated the robbery. As press interest in the film heats up, rumors start flying about Gene's involvement. As Gene says, "All manner of strange things turn up in cases like this. The trick is focusing on the right ones." Fortunately for him, canny Lillian and keen-eyed Edith are prepared to investigate and clear Gene's name. Patrick skillfully stitches together bits of authentic Hollywood history and provides star turns for the likes of Bette Davis and Fred MacMurray in this exuberant tale of murder, revenge, and sartorial splendor.
