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Book and wrapper in great condition - Subtitled : A Murder Mystery at the Keystone Film Company. >>> A murder mystery set in the world of silent movies, from an award-winning author. >>> Warwick Easton is a cop - a movie cop, that is. When this vaudevillian lands in California, his screen prospects look bleak. But a bathtub meeting with Mack Sennett, lands him a stunts-and-chases job. Danger is to be expected in the work of Keystone Cops - but murder is quite another thing. - Put a solemn Englishman into police uniform and thrust him into the crazy world of Keystone Film Studios in 1916 and you have the premise for this novel. The King of Comedy, Mack Sennett, insists on calling the new cop Keystone. But comedy turns swiftly to crime. Shocking things occur that are not in any script a horrific death on a rollercoaster, a body in a bungalow, the disappearance of a girl, a shooting on a beach. - Keystone the cop gets on the trail. His mission: to find the adorable and much abused blonde actress, Amber Honeybee. The action is threaded through the real stories of silent comedy stars Mack Sennett, Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand. (Goodreads)
