Movie idol Jock Newhall was
murdered at his famous Deauville mansion during the wrap party for the
movie
Love's Lonely Quest.
For the next forty years the unsolved murder bubbled in a cauldron to
become a legend -- and fodder for countless theories, a ratings booster
for television stations, and a cottage industry for a self-appointed
Hollywood guru who claims to be in touch with Newhall's ghost.
Producer Clark
Kester asks screenwriter Pete Castle -- a creator of detective series
and movies -- to find the killer. And to write the script for a
television reality program recreating the murder.
A tough enough
assignment, which gets harder as Pete digs deeper into the case.
Things turn deadly when Kester dies -- in exactly the same way, on the
site of the original murder -- during a rehearsal. There's no shortage
of suspects as the old actors clash with Pete and Kester over the
recreation. As does Nicole Brandy, a granddaughter to Jock Newhall, out
to salvage her murdered grandfather's reputation.
Pete's investigation stirs up old animosities, old secrets, and old
ghosts and beneath these secrets are more secrets -- deeper, darker,
and more sinister.
At Pete's side in this provocative, romantic, and atmospheric mystery
are his ladylove, publicist Laurie Savage, his father, and the motley
crew of his "rep company."
Arrayed against him are all the forces of Hollywood, as Pete races to
solve an ancient murder -- and stop more modern ones from happening.
