Download Silver Screens: A Detective Novel of 1930: The Cyrus Skeen Series, Book 8 AudioBook Free
It is April, 1930. The roaring '20s have ended. The country is absorbing the distress of the currency markets crash of the previous October. However, in the wake of the monetary catastrophe, Cyrus Skeen, private detective, scion of East Coastline wealth, and a physique in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA world, is secure. He never bought on margin. In this eighth excitement of Skeen's, Hollywood extends to out to him - actually. A Hollywood company visits his office and pledges him the moon if he would consent to allow his persona and cases be used for a few new videos, possibly starring William Powell or Ronald Colman. Skeen expresses no interest and asks the person to leave. The next day a friend brings him a news clipping in regards to a major Hollywood studio negotiating with him over the rights to his past cases to make a group of detective videos - all talkies. Really the only problem is that the news item came out in a Hollywood publication a week before the company came out in Skeen's office. Later that day his friend is murdered. As the hints to his friend's murder pile up, they all seem to be to indicate a bizarre connection between a road accident that took place in 1906, the ambitions of the California politician angling for the united states Senate, and a captivating starlet who invites Skeen to a dalliance. Magic Screens probes the doubtful links between Hollywood and politics in the detective's most complex and baffling circumstance yet.
