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Phony Tinsel

(2013)
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There's no shortage of tinsel in bestselling author Robert S. Levinson's tenth mystery-thriller set in 1930s Hollywood.
Phony Tinsel starts off when adored film star Sarah Darling digs her claws into Charlie Dickens a naive quick-tempered screenwriter desperate for success. He's easily seduced into Sarah's scheme to murder her husband skirt-chasing producer-director Max Moonglow.
There's romance too as Charlie juggles his emotions between conniving ingenue Polly Wilde and Robin Moon a missing migrant worker he's vowed to rescue from the harsh realities of life beyond Tinseltown.
Sarah meanwhile plays hostess to a stable of lovers from her sex-driven past and her ego-driven present--keys to a future she finds worth the price of a murder or two or three. "


Genre: Historical Mystery

Praise for this book

"A tale filled with as much ambition, greed and treachery as a Joan Crawford double-feature." - Joseph Finder

"A delightfully improbable romp through 1938 Hollywood with all the usual Levinson wit and humor." - Margaret Maron

"Boffo!... a wry, fast-paced, often hilarious tale of love, ambition and making movies in Hollywood’s Golden Age... Truly a delight!" - Christopher Reich


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