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[Celebrity Murder Case 13] - The Clark Gable and Carole Lombard Murder Case

✍ Scribed by George Baxt

Book ID: 100393323
Publisher: Minotaur Books;St Martin's Press
Year: 2015
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 135 KB
Category: Fiction
City: New York;NY
ISBN: 1627797165

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✦ Synopsis

"A clever plot, witty innuendo, and plenty of the Hollywood greats for company." -Library Journal

As Gone With the Wind approaches release, all the stars but Clark Gable prepare to head for Atlanta for the big premiere. Clark and his wife, Carole Lombard, are too distressed to celebrate the opening of the biggest movie of his career because Lydia Austin, a young actress and a protege of Carole's, is missing. In fact, kidnapping paranoia is sweeping through Hollywood, and even with body-building bodyguards like the two Clark has hired to protect Carole, no one feels safe.

But Carole is not a dame to take such threats lying down. Convinced that they can help, she and Clark set themselves up as amateur sleuths. Of course, there are plenty of other celebrities in the mix: W.C. Fields alternates between anxiety over the kidnappings and trying to convince David O. Selznick that he should play Rhett Butler, and Groucho Marx also gets serious (just barely) long...

✦ Subjects

Mystery

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