Goodness has nothing to do with it as a hard-luck private eye in 1940s
Hollywood takes a case for legendary silver screen sex symbol Mae
West. In the early days of talking pictures, the greatest sex
symbol in Hollywood was the platinum-blonde bad girl Mae West. Naughty
and gorgeous with a razor-sharp wit, West wrote her own material and
controlled her own image—until the censors came in and outlawed the
racy repartee that made her famous. By the forties, her star has faded
and she’s banking everything on a scandalous memoir that she hopes
will set the stage for a comeback. When the only copy is stolen, she
calls in a favor from an old beau—the brother of wisecracking PI
Toby Peters. When Mae West asks, “Why don’t you come up
sometime and see me?” you don’t say no. Peters arrives at a party
at West’s house, where every guest is a man dressed as the woman
herself—and one of them may be the thief who stole the manuscript.
But before he can tear off the culprit’s wig, Peters finds that this
is about more than theft. The crook wants to destroy Mae West, and he
has murder on his mind. The star of Edgar Award winner Stuart
M. Kaminsky’s fun forties private eye series, “Peters is a good
guy with a sense of humor, and every appearance he makes is a welcome
one” (Booklist).
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ISBN
9781453232880
Publisert
2017
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Vendor
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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