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English
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Enter Valentino, a mild-mannered UCLA film archivist, buys a decrepit movie palace and uncovers a skeleton in the secret Prohibition basement. He then makes a second discovery: long-lost, priceless, reels of film: Erich von Stroheim's infamous Greed. The Los Angeles Police Department 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
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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
206 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"UCLA film archivist and sometime film detective Valentino doesn't take friend and former actress Beata Limerick very seriously when she tells him that she quit acting because of the curse on blond actresses. Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Thelma Todd, Sharon Tate...they all had more fun, but none of them made it out of the business alive, and according to Limerick, she wasn't taking any chances. But when Valentino finds Beata's body staged the...
3) Shoot
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"UCLA film archivist and sometime film detective Valentino is approached by none other than his hero Red Montana at a party at the Red Montana and Dixie Day Museum, a tribute to the beloved western film and television stars. Red tells Valentino that he is being blackmailed over a blue film that his wife made early in her career, long before she became Dixie Day, the wholesome Sweetheart of the Range. With Dixie on her deathbed, Red is desperate to...
4) Indigo
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
317 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Film detective Valentino is summoned to the estate of Ignacio Bozel to collect a prized donation to the university's 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 Hollywood's...
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