After six months serving as an assistant to movie star Kitty Flint, Oxford-educated Emma Blackstone is yearning for a return to the classic education she loves. However, when Kitty's long-estranged husband turns up dead in her dressing room, Emma is instead thrown into an investigation to clear her kind employer's name and see who in this glamorous world could want to frame Kitty.
This book is certainly chock full of 1920s Hollywood, from the ghastly makeup and the even-more-ghastly attempts at "historical accuracy" to bootleggers and the corrupt studio system. It's an OK mystery, and Emma's obsession with Latin gets a bit tedious at times, but if you're a fan of Hollywood before the talkies, this is the mystery for you.
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