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Laddar... Valentino: Film Detectiveav Loren D. Estleman
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A collection of stories featuring a UCLA film archivist who searches for lost footage--and finds trouble instead Though he shares his name with the most famous heartthrob of the silent era, Valentino is not part of film history. Rather, he is a scholar of it, working at UCLA to help find and preserve rare films. But not all movies are lost because of careless storage. Some were hidden deliberately, and there are those who will kill to ensure they stay that way. In these short stories, Valentino's searches for missing motion pictures become dangerous investigations, and he is forced to decide what's more important--preserving film history, or preserving his own neck. Comprised of timeless short stories that have appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Loren D. Estleman's Valentino: Film Detective shows why Estleman is considered a master not just of film history, but of the enduring art of murder, which golden-age Hollywood did so much to perfect. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Google Books — Laddar... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999BetygMedelbetyg:
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The first few mysteries were not very intriguing and I could tell the author hadn't really fleshed-out the main character yet. The later tales have more interesting ties to Hollywood, the main reason I read the novels, and were more complex.
My favorite stories where the ones I thought the author might draw from for future novels: "Bombshell", "Preminger's Gold", and "The List." In "Bombshell" someone murders a has-been actress and a female impersonator in the same manner in which Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield died. In "Preminger's Gold" an old man who had been an extra in the movie "Anatomy of a Murder" claims the director, Otto Preminger, hid bars of gold in a lake outside of town. The last story in the book, "The List", is about a B film producer who dies in Mexico and leaves the one and only Hollywood blacklist that was used by film studios to ruin the careers of so many people during the red scare.
This was an uneven group of tales. I was especially disappointed when I found out the stories "Greed" and "Garbo Writes" were the same as mystery novels I had already read. The reason why I keep coming back to Valentino is the film history. In the Preface, Estleman explains his love of the cinema and why he decided to create a character that was a film detective. If you enjoy movie history and simple mysteries with good character development then you will enjoy reading the Valentino series. ( )