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Lädt ... Brazenvon Loren D. Estleman
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Valentino begins investigating when an elderly retired actress of his acquaintance is found dead under suspicious circumstances, in a pose very reminiscent of the death of Marilyn Monroe. When another blonde woman is also killed, Valentino has to work with police detective Ray Padilla to determine whether they’re hunting for a serial killer who has a thing for blondes…."Brazen" is, I think, the fifth or sixth novel in Estleman’s Valentino series, which follows the life and work of a “film detective,” someone whose life’s work involves tracking down and restoring lost film from the Golden Age of Hollywood; incidentally, Valentino also owns a decrepit movie theater and is in the process of restoring it to its former glory. The characters are engaging, the story lines quite absorbing and the extensive knowledge that the author obviously has about Hollywood and movie history all combine to make this one of my favourite amateur detective series - not to mention the fact that Estleman includes an extensive bibliography and filmography at the end of the book! Recommended, but start at the beginning of the series ("Frames") to really appreciate them all. ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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"A killer is reenacting the deaths of Hollywood's blond bombshells, and Valentino must stop him before it's too late in Loren D. Estleman's Brazen. UCLA film archivist and sometime film detective Valentino doesn't take friend and former actress Beata Limerick very seriously when she tells him that she quit acting because of the curse on blond actresses. Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Thelma Todd, Sharon Tate... they all had more fun, but none of them made it out of the business alive, and according to Limerick, she wasn't taking any chances. But when Valentino finds Beata's body staged the way Monroe was found, "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" playing on repeat; he knows Limerick's death was no accident. Police detective Ray Padilla doesn't quite suspect Valentino is the killer, but he can't let him off that easy. After all, the film archivist seems to be involved in more than his share of intrigue and death, which makes him a prime suspect. But Valentino is also a walking encyclopedia of Hollywood knowledge. When another washed-up actress is killed, the crime scene a copy of Thelma Todd's last moments, Padilla enlists Valentino's help in catching a serial killer of doomed blondes before he can strike again."-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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