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"First published in Dutch as Starr by Houtekiet, Antwerp, 2007"--T.p. verso.
Prologue -- pt. 1. Starr Mortensen -- pt. 2. Starr faithfull -- pt. 3. Starr Baker.
"For Victor Cox, a professor of film history, the Hollywood films noirs of the 1940s and 1950s are more real than his daily life. When his wife is found drowned, Cox is the first murder suspect. He falls in love with a student who looks like the 1920s film star Louise Brooks, but she disappears at a Belgian seaside resort. Smeared in lipstick in their hotel room are the words "No Sale," the same words Elizabeth Taylor wrote on a mirror in Butterfield 8. Subsequently, a series of gruesome killings of young women, all modeled on violent deaths in films that he knows and loves, lead the police back to Cox, who starts to doubt his own sanity and innocence."--P. [4] of cover.

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PUBLISHED
London : Bitter Lemon Press, 2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: 270 p. ; 20 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781904738978
1904738974

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Lynn, Jonathan.

SUBJECTS
College teachers -- Fiction.
Motion pictures -- Study and teaching -- Fiction.
Murder -- Fiction.
Film noir -- Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Psychological fiction.