Murder in Disguise (A Roaring Twenties Mystery)
Book Details
Author(s)
Mary Miley
Publisher
Severn House Publishers
ISBN / ASIN
0727887149
ISBN-13
9780727887146
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#553,847
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Description
1920s script girl Jessie Beckett investigates the murder of a movie projectionist in this absorbing historical mystery.
Joe Petrovitch was gunned down on a sunny Saturday afternoon in early October, during the ninth reel of Charlie Chaplin s Gold Rush.
Employed by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, Jessie Beckett has a busy time as Script Girl for Pickford-Fairbanks studios. Yet she also has a reputation as a skilled amateur sleuth. So when a projectionist is shot dead and his grieving widow asks Jessie if she can find out who killed him, Jessie is determined to find the killer and his motive. But who was the mysterious man in the red coat who fired three shots at Joe Petrovitch? And how could he enter and leave a crowded theatre without being noticed? To find the answers, Jessie must delve into the dead man s past and uncover dark secrets from another continent and another era. As she is to discover, the past has a long reach...
Joe Petrovitch was gunned down on a sunny Saturday afternoon in early October, during the ninth reel of Charlie Chaplin s Gold Rush.
Employed by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, Jessie Beckett has a busy time as Script Girl for Pickford-Fairbanks studios. Yet she also has a reputation as a skilled amateur sleuth. So when a projectionist is shot dead and his grieving widow asks Jessie if she can find out who killed him, Jessie is determined to find the killer and his motive. But who was the mysterious man in the red coat who fired three shots at Joe Petrovitch? And how could he enter and leave a crowded theatre without being noticed? To find the answers, Jessie must delve into the dead man s past and uncover dark secrets from another continent and another era. As she is to discover, the past has a long reach...
