Description
The Studio Murder Mystery
A.C. & Carmen Edington
'This detective novel has proved a great success in America, where, concurrent with serial publication, a competition on a National scale was organised, offering a prize of 3,000 dollars for the correct solution of the mystery. The film rights of this story were immediately bought by the Paramount Film Company, and the production of this picture has just been completed. It has been very well received by film critics in America. The authors of The Studio Murder Mystery know their Hollywood. They live there; they have worked for the movies. Now they picture the abnormal life of the Hollywood movie colony. Mr. and Mrs. Edington have written a dramatic and unusual tale. Dwight Hardell, a foremost player of Superior Films is found dead on Stage Six of the company's Hollywood scene, which he had been enacting alone, under Director Siebert, about midnight, the coroner determines. Conflicting and baffling clues puzzle the police. Three individuals of the Superior Films each confesses to the murder. But only one can be guilty ! The Chief of Detectives doubts all three confessions. But who did kill Hardell? That is the story.'
HB, 5 x 7.5", 252 pages. No d/j, pretty good blue boards. The title page is missing, along with the publishing date. (But I looked up the history - the US edition was published in 1929, and a film was produced then, too. I can't find any UK editions for sale, but one site had a date of 1934) Usual foxing etc.
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