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"A Tom Doherty Associates Book." |
Summary |
Film detective Valentino is summoned to the estate of Ignacio Bozel to collect a prized donation to the universitys movie library: Bleak Street, a film from the classic noir period, thought lost for more than sixty years. Bleak Street was never released. Its star, Van Oliver, a gifted and charismatic actor with alleged ties to the mob, disappeared while the project was in post-production, presumably murdered by gangland rivals: another one of Hollywoods unsolved mysteries. Studio bosses elected to shelve the film rather than risk box-office failure. UCLAs PR Department is excited about the acquisition, but only if Valentino can find a way to sell it in the mainstream media by way of a sensational discovery to coincide with its release: zWe want to know what happened to Oliver.y A simple quest for a few hundred yards of celluloid opens a portal into a place darker than night. |
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Murder -- Fiction.
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Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Fiction.
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Genre |
Detective and mystery fiction.
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Series |
Valentino mystery
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ISBN |
9781250258359
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1250258359
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