Book Three in the Hollywood’s Garden of Allah novels:
Citizen Hollywood
It’s 1939 – Orson Welles, the enfant terrible of New York, is coming to Hollywood to make his first movie. Tinsel City is agog! Can he even direct a movie? What will it be about? Will he scandalize the West Coast the way he’s shocked the East Coast? And, more importantly, who will he bed first and does he kiss-and-tell? When William Randolph Hearst realizes Citizen Kane is based on him, he won’t be happy—and when Hearst isn’t happy, nobody’s safe. Marcus, Kathryn, and Gwendolyn need to go for broke, and the clock is ticking.
Book Four in the Hollywood’s Garden of Allah novels:
Searchlights and Shadows
The dark days of Pearl Harbor loom over Los Angeles. America is at war, and posters warn Hollywoodites that loose lips sink ships. MGM screenwriter, Marcus Adler, needs to come up with a sure-fire hit, but he’s threatened by a vicious rumor: “Marcus Adler is a goddamned Commie.” After losing her job at the Cocoanut Grove, Gwendolyn Brick dreams of opening her own dress store. But will it be worth the trouble if it drags her back into the orbit of Bugsy Siegel? Hollywood Reporter columnist, Kathryn Massey, realizes her boss is gambling away his fortune—and her future. Could their very survival depend on a place nobody’s heard of called Las Vegas? In the city of searchlights, suspicions can lurk behind every shadow.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Heartfelt thanks to the following, who helped shaped this book:
My editor: Meghan Pinson, for her invaluable guidance, expert eye, and unfailing nitpickery.
My cover designer: Dan Yeager at Nu-Image Design
My beta readers: Vince Hans, Allen Crowe, Beth Riches, and especially Royce Sciortino and Gene Strange for their invaluable time, insight, feedback, and advice in shaping this novel.
My Proof Reader Extraordinaire: Bob Molinari
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
From an early age, Martin was enchanted with old movies from Hollywood’s golden era – from the dawn of the talkies in the late 1920s to the close of the studio system in the late 1950s – and has spent many a happy hour watching the likes of Garland, Gable, Crawford, Garbo, Grant, Miller, Kelly, Astaire, Rogers, Turner, and Welles go through their paces. It feels inevitable that he would someday end up writing about them. Originally from Melbourne, Australia, Martin moved to Los Angeles in the mid-90s where he now works as a writer, blogger, webmaster, and tour guide.
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