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1950s Private Investigator Donald Langham discovers that truth is stranger than fiction when he investigates a murder on an American movie set. 1956. Having just started work as a professional private investigator, Donald Langham's first client is American movie star Suzie Reynard, currently shooting a murder mystery film at Marling Hall, an Elizabethan manor house in the depths of the Norfolk countryside. The film's director - Suzie's lover - has been receiving threats and Suzie is convinced his life is in danger. On arriving at Marling Hall with his fiance Maria, Langham finds the film set awash with clashing egos, petty jealousies, ill-advised love affairs and seething resentments. Matters come to a head when a body is discovered in the director's trailer. It would appear to be an open-and-shut case when someone confesses to the murder. Donald and Maria are not convinced - but why would someone confess to a crime they haven't committed If Langham is to uncover the truth, he must delve into the past and another murder that took place more than twenty years before ...
About the Author
Born in Haworth, West Yorkshire, Eric Brown started writing in 1975 while living in Australia, has lived in India and Greece, and has travelled extensively in the far east. He has won the British Science Fiction Award twice for his short stories, and his novel Helix Wars was shortlisted for the 2012 Philip K. Dick award. He's published over seventy books and his latest include the sixth crime novel in the Langham and Dupré series, set in the 1950s, Murder Served Cold, and the SF novel Buying Time. He has also written a dozen books for children and over a hundred and fifty short stories.His only claim to fame is that he owns Scotland's largest collection of yeast extract jars.He is owned by a red and white setter, Uther, who exercises him regularly.He writes a monthly science fiction review column for the Guardian newspaper and lives in Cockburnspath near Dunbar, Scotland.
