| Hollywood Buzz Lib/E Contributor(s): Liesche, Margit (Author), Williams, Christine (Read by), Poisoned Pen Press (Prologue by) |
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ISBN: 1433265451 ISBN-13: 9781433265457 Publisher: Blackstone Publishing OUR PRICE: $72.00 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: March 2009 Annotation: Pucci Lewis was used to ferrying fighter planes and to undercover work. But in the dark hours of World War II, she is dispatched to Hollywood, where the merging of entertainment and propaganda has attracted sabotage and murder. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Historical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.5" W x 6.2" (0.60 lbs) |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Geographic Orientation - California - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast - Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA - Cultural Region - Southern California |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Pucci Lewis was used to ferrying fighter planes and to undercover work. But in the dark hours of World War II, she is dispatched to Hollywood, where big stars and studio moguls are working with Washington to merge entertainment and propaganda. A documentary on the Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASPs) is underway, and Pucci is stepping in for a sister WASP who has been hospitalized after her plane was sabotaged. When a big-name director dies, possibly murdered by Nazi operatives, military intelligence asks Pucci to learn what she can from the inside. She has her suspicions about the so-called housekeeper of Bela Lugosi, a rising starlet with a history with the Hungarian resistance, but Pucci doesn't trust the girl. Pucci will have to maneuver through movieland and its narcissistic denizens to find the truth. |
Contributor Bio(s): Williams, Christine: - Christine Williams is a singer and actor based in Ashland, Oregon. Her performance credits include productions at regional theaters and on concert stages across the country and around the world, from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the Barbican Centre in London to the Aspen Music Festival and the Grotowski Institute in Poland. Liesche, Margit: -Margit Liesche, the daughter of Hungarian refugees who arrived in the United States in 1947 following eight years of missionary service in war-torn China, grew up with her parents' tales of isolation, escape, and the arduous journey aboard a military ship to America. She lives in Marin County, California. |