Cut to Murder: A Queenie Davilov Mystery (A Henry Holt Mystery) - Hardcover

Osborne, Denise

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9780805031140: Cut to Murder: A Queenie Davilov Mystery (A Henry Holt Mystery)

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ISBN 10: 0805031146 ISBN 13: 9780805031140

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co, 1995

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The intrepid Queenie lands an unbelievably plum assignment for a beginning screenwriter: to doctor a script by one of the masters of the business, Digs Patterson.
As volatile tempers clash on the set and local anti-foreigner sentiment bubbles, the producer reveals to Q that he hired her as much for her renowned investigative skills as for her screenwriting prowess. Now she must quietly locate Digs and finish the script, with tyrannical investors watching her every move. While researching the historical events of the drama, Q finds that Digs's disappearance only touches the surface of the mystery: She must uncover a betrayal of the past to find the truth in the present. But is the threat from a ghost or from a very real member of the cast and crew? A budding relationship with the film's handsome but suspicious star puts Q in the dangerous position of losing her heart - and maybe her life.

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Filmdom meets history?and murder?in the second charming Queenie Davilov mystery (after Murder Offscreen). When a scriptwriter vanishes from location in Spain, director/producer Fernando Frazier brings in Queenie to complete the script for a film that tells a true story from the Spanish Civil War. But Queenie soon discovers that Fernando and his half-brother, Carlos Ballester, who arranged the film's financing, have very different ideas about the movie's plot and the history it purports to tell?the saga of their mother, who was denounced as a traitor during the war and executed by her rural village's political boss. Fernando claims she was betrayed, while Carlos dismisses this argument as "nonsense." As Queenie gathers information about past and present mysteries, she needs longer than does the reader to figure out that the two are intertwined. A look at the unfinished film and her sixth sense send her digging for a corpse, but not in time to prevent another death. Her minor mental foot-dragging aside, Queenie is an engaging sleuth who moves easily on a convincing stage populated with varied characters who spice up the story with their surprises.
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