[Spencer McCoy Mysteries 01] • The Hollywood Detective

Lights! Camera! Murder?

Hollywood, 1939. Promising starlet Clara Lockhart disappears from a Beverly Hills party the night before a big audition. Spencer McCoy – L.A.’s finest private detective – is hired to track her down. But what starts as a simple missing persons case unexpectedly escalates into something far more sinister.

Like classic detectives Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, Spencer McCoy is a decent man in a corrupt city, trying to make Los Angeles a better place, one case at a time. When he clashes with MGM’s notorious publicity boss – a shady executive who wants Clara to be permanently silenced – McCoy becomes a hunted man.

Can he track down Clara before the studio gets to him? Find out in this first instalment of a smart and stylish mystery series featuring the whip-smart McCoy and his wise-cracking associate Rose. If you like Dashiell Hammett’s Thin Man novels, or the kind of screwball comedies where Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn fight like cat and dog, you’ll enjoy watching the sparks fly when these two get to work.

Featuring real movie stars of the silver screen, The Hollywood Detective will transport you to the Golden Age of movie-making. A perfect summer read.

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THE HOLLYWOOD DETECTIVE SERIES

Set during the Golden Age of Hollywood, The Hollywood Detective is a fun detective series featuring Spencer McCoy, a handsome private investigator with a reputation for getting to the truth. In a city ruled by powerful studio bosses and corrupt cops, it takes a decent man like Spencer to deliver justice.

In this first book in the series, Spencer hires a new secretary who turns his agency – and his thoughts – upside down. Rose Randall is smart, peppy and streetwise and is not the kind of girl to settle for telephone and filing duties.

Also available:

Book 2: Lost and Foundling

Book 3: Dangerous By Design