#1 – Scandal in Babylon
Los Angeles, 1924. British widow and classical scholar Emma Blackstone works as companion to her sister-in-law Kitty Flint, a beautiful silent-film star whose career depends more on charisma than acting. When Kitty’s estranged first husband Rex Festraw is found murdered in her dressing room with a…
#2 – One Extra Corpse
Hollywood, May 1924. Emma now writes and repairs scenarios for Foremost Studios while continuing to manage Kitty. Director Ernst Zapolya urgently asks to meet Kitty, warning that lives depend on it, but Emma and Kitty reach his vast historical set too late and find a death…
#3 – Saving Susy Sweetchild
Hollywood, July 1924. Emma is working on the Western film Our Tiny Miracle when seven-year-old star Susy Sweetchild is nearly killed during a stunt. Susy’s mother, former actress Selina Sutton, seems more concerned with finishing the picture than protecting her daughter, and Emma begins to question…
#4 – Death in the Palace
November 1924. Silent-film star Kitty Flint receives an extraordinary proposal from wealthy Clark Dexter: $50,000 to marry him and then quietly divorce. Emma distrusts the arrangement, especially when rumours about Dexter are followed by the suspicious death of the person who voiced them. The inquiry carries…