Welcome to Broadway and to an unthinkable crime! Former theatre starlet turned amateur sleuth Jessie Beckett gets mixed up in murder when an onstage shooting turns all too real.New York, 1926. Its not like Jessie Beckett goes around looking for murders to solve, but the vaudeville star turned movie script girl has a natural talent for it. After a lifetime on stage, shes sensitive to details that other people miss.So when leading theater star Allen Crenshaw is shot live on stage during a performance of hit Broadway show Rules of Engagement a horrified Jessie watching from the second row she knows she has to act fast before Allens costar, the beautiful Norah Rose, goes down for murder. After all, it was Norah who fired the fateful bullet . . . even if the shooting was all part of the show.Jessie investigates those closest to Allen the presence of her theater companion, the superstar Adele Astaire, opening doors wherever they go and finds only enemies. With the suspects for the disliked actor so numerous, can she uncover the truth in time to save Norah or will the killer silence her too?Packed with reallife stars of the stage and screen, this pageturning romp through the boards and backstreets of Broadway is a perfect pick for readers who enjoy Jazz Age mysteries with intrepid female sleuths.

Binding: Hardback;224 pages; Publisher: Canongate Books; Classification: FFH; Weight: 526 g; Dimensions: 146 x 224 x 27

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