Indigo

✍ Scribed by Loren D. Estleman

• Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates; Forge
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 178 KB
• Series: Valentino Mystery 6
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• City: California--Los Angeles--Hollywood., Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.
• ISBN: 1250258340

✦ Synopsis

Indigo continues Loren D. Estleman's hard-boiled Valentino Mysteries.

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 unsolved mysteries. Studio bosses elected to shelve the film rather than risk box-office failure. UCLA's PR Department is excited about the acquisition, but only if Valentino can find a way to sell it in the mainstream media by way of a sensational discovery to coincide with its release: "We want to know what happened to Oliver."

A simple quest for a few hundred yards of celluloid opens a portal into a...

✦ Subjects

California -- Los Angeles -- Hollywood