The Movie Star Mystery

The Movie Star Mystery
Author: Karl Sturk
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9780545105262

The kids from Mystery, Inc. are in Hollywood for an awards show. But--ruh-roh!--someone has snitched the names of the winners! CanScooby and the gang solve the mystery before the thief steals the spotlight?

The Movie Star Mystery

The Movie Star Mystery
Author: Irene Kilpatrick
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2007-05-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1416939016

Nancy investigates the suspicious murder of an actress when she and her father take up temporary residence in the woman's old mansion.

Murder of a Movie Star

Murder of a Movie Star
Author: L. B. Hathaway
Publisher:
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2017
Genre: Blizzards
ISBN: 9780995569416

"As England swelters during the hottest summer on record, Posie Parker, Private Detective, is summoned to Worton Hall Film Studios, where she steps into the heart of a sinister new mystery. Silvia Hanro, the famously beautiful movie star, has received death threats alongside her morning coffee, and Posie is tasked with protecting her. Aided by her good friends Lady Dolly Cardigeon and Chief Inspector Richard Lovelace, Posie soon realises that behind the cheap canvas sets and the dreamy glamour of Worton Hall Studios a dreadful secret lays buried, and traitors lurk everywhere."--Amazon.

Murder at Hotel Cinema

Murder at Hotel Cinema
Author: Daniel Edward Craig
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2011-10-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0738720275

In this star-studded sequel to Murder at the Universe, Daniel Edward Craig pokes good-humored fun at the celebrity-crazed Los Angeles culture. Dedicated hotelier Trevor Lambert takes a job at Hotel Cinema, a multi-million dollar rejuvenation of an Old Hollywood motor inn. It's a fabulous opening party until Tinseltown's hottest star, Chelsea Fricks, takes a fatal dive from her penthouse balcony. Was it a reckless publicity stunt or did fame drive her to suicide? Chelsea's stab wounds tell another story. Suddenly Hotel Cinema is the setting of a hilarious Hollywood murder mystery, starring Chelsea's former pit bull publicist; a star-struck detective; tasteless tabloid reporters; and Trevor's incompetent boss, who breaks every rule in the hotel handbook. Cristal champagne is flowing. Business is booming. But when the hotel staff are targeted as murder suspects, the party turns into a publicity nightmare.

Movie Star by Lizzie Pepper

Movie Star by Lizzie Pepper
Author: Hilary Liftin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2015-07-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0698137698

The “It” book you absolutely must pack in your beach bag—an addictively juicy novel of celebrity love gone wrong. • An EW Best Book of 2015 for the Pop Culture Fanatic in Your Life • “Readers who come for the dirt, real or imagined, won’t be disappointed; there’s plenty of gold in these True Hollywood hills.” —Entertainment Weekly Chosen as a Great Summer Read by: • USA Today • People Magazine • Entertainment Weekly • Good Housekeeping • Cosmopolitan • Vogue.com • The Hollywood Reporter • “[A] delicious beach read.” —People Magazine “A hilarious, tabloid-trashing gotcha novel.” —Vanity Fair “A juicy work of shocking betrayal.” —Us Weekly “I’ve had a million meetings in my acting career, and I had no idea that this would be the one that would change my life forever. I walked into the room, and there was Rob . . . in the flesh.” Actress Lizzie Pepper was America’s Girl Next Door and her marriage to Hollywood mega-star Rob Mars was tabloid gold—a whirlwind romance and an elaborate celebrity-studded wedding landed them on the cover of every celebrity weekly. But fame, beauty, and wealth weren’t enough to keep their marriage together. Hollywood’s “It” couple are over—and now Lizzie is going to tell her side of the story. Celebrity ghostwriter Hilary Liftin chronicles the tabloids’ favorite marriage as Lizzie Pepper realizes that, when the curtain falls, her romance isn’t what she and everyone else thought. From her lonely holidays in sumptuous villas to her husband’s deep commitment to a disconcertingly repressive mind-body group, Lizzie reveals a side of fame that her fans never get to see. Full of twists and turns, Movie Star by Lizzie Pepper is a breathless journey to the heights of Hollywood power and royalty and a life in the spotlight that is nearly impossible to escape.

Mystery Movie Series of 1930s Hollywood

Mystery Movie Series of 1930s Hollywood
Author: Ron Backer
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2012-08-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0786490187

This companion volume to Mystery Movie Series of 1940s Hollywood (McFarland, 2010) focuses on 22 series and 167 individual films, primarily released during the 1930s. It was a decade that featured some of the most famous cinema detectives of all time, among them Charlie Chan, Nick and Nora Charles, Philo Vance, Nancy Drew, and such lesser known but equally entertaining figures as Hildegarde Withers, Torchy Blane, Mr. Moto, Mr. Wong, and Brass Bancroft. Each mystery movie series is placed within its historical context, with emphasis on its source material and the changes or developments within the series over time. Also included are reviews of all the series' films, analyzing the quality and cohesiveness of the mystery plotlines. For titles based on literary sources, a comparison between the film and the written work is provided.

Movie Cat

Movie Cat
Author: Garrison Allen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2001-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781575666235

When C. D. Masterly--the director of a big budget western that could put the town of Empty Creek, Arizona, on the map--is murdered, it is up to ex-Marine, bookstore owner, and sometimes sleuth Penelope Warren and her cat "Big Mike" to discover who wanted Masterly written out of the script. Reprint.

The Girl Next Door

The Girl Next Door
Author: Brad Parks
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2012-03-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429949996

Brad Parks's smart-mouthed, quick-witted reporter returns in The Girl Next Door—another action-packed entry in his award-winning series, written with an unforgettable mix of humor and suspense. Reading his own newspaper's obituaries, veteran reporter Carter Ross comes across that of a woman named Nancy Marino, who was the victim of a hit-and-run while she was on the job delivering copies of that very paper, the Eagle-Examiner. Struck by the opportunity to write a heroic piece about an everyday woman killed too young, he heads to her wake to gather tributes and anecdotes. It's the last place Ross expects to find controversy—which is exactly what happens when one of Nancy's sisters convinces him that the accident might not have been accidental at all. It turns out that the kind and generous Nancy may have made a few enemies, starting with her boss at the diner where she was a part-time waitress, and even including the publisher of the Eagle-Examiner. Carter's investigation of this seemingly simple story soon has him in big trouble with his full-time editor and sometime girlfriend, Tina Thompson, not to mention the rest of his bosses at the paper, but he can't let it go—the story is just too good, and it keeps getting better. But will his nose for trouble finally take him too far?

The Woman in Black

The Woman in Black
Author: Erik Tarloff
Publisher: Rare Bird Books, a Vireo Book
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781947856974

ALos Angeles Times Bestseller Chance Hardwick, the fictitious star of the breakout filmPlains and Hills, is widely considered the greatest, most charismatic young movie actor of the postwar generation. However, his meteoric rise to fame and his tragic demise have remained an inexplicable puzzle to all who knew him, as well as to his millions of fans around the world. But all these years later, famed producer and film historian Gordon Frost has gathered Chance's family, friends, lovers, and colleagues--all the people who loved and loathed him--to tell his story and try to come to terms with the elusive, unknowable figure who continues to haunt their lives. The oral history he's pieced together uncovers the secret life of one of America's premier talents. From Chance's humble Midwestern beginnings, to his time in New York as an acting student, and finally his turn as a Hollywood icon, all the pieces fit together--or so it would seem. But who is Chance Hardwick really? And moreover, who is the mysterious woman watching over his grave each year on the anniversary of his death? Narratively inventive and always engaging,The Woman in Black spans America in the 1950s in its exploration of film, fame, and how well we ever really know each other.

The Mystery of the Lost Village

The Mystery of the Lost Village
Author: Gertrude Chandler Warner
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1993-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9780785720003

While visiting a Navaho Indian reservation in New Mexico, the Aldens try to save a forest under threat of development by proving it is the site of a lost, buried village. But someone is sabotaging their dig