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Frames : a Valentino mystery / Loren D. Estleman.

Estleman, Loren D. (Author).

Summary:

Enter Valentino, a mild-mannered UCLA film archivist. In the surreal world of Hollywood filmdom truth is often stranger than celluloid fiction. When Valentino buys a decrepit movie palace and uncovers a skeleton in the secret Prohibition basement, he's not really surprised. But he's staggered by a second discovery: long-lost, priceless, reels of film: Erich von Stroheim's infamous Greed.The LAPD wants to take the reels as evidence, jeopardizing the precious old film. If Valentino wants to save his find, he has only one choice: solve the murder within 72 hours with the help of his mentor, the noted film scholar Broadhead, and Fanta, a feisty if slightly flaky young law student. Between a budding romance with a beautiful forensics investigator and visions of Von Stroheim's ghost, Valentino's madcap race to save the flick is as fast and frenetic as a classic screwball comedy.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780765315755
  • ISBN: 0765315750
  • Physical Description: 269 pages ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Forge, 2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-266).
Formatted Contents Note:
"A Tom Doherty Associates book.
Subject:
Greed (Motion picture) > Fiction.
Archivists > Fiction.
Women law students > Fiction.
Motion picture film > Preservation > Fiction.
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) > Fiction.
Genre:
Detective and mystery fiction.

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