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"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 place darker than night."--Publisher description.
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A Valentino mystery
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PUBLISHED
New York : Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2020.
Year Published: 2020
Description: 221 pages ; 22 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781250258359
1250258359
SUBJECTS
Archivists -- Fiction.
Celebrities -- Fiction.
Motion picture industry -- Los Angeles -- Fiction.
Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- Los Angeles -- Fiction.
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.