One Extra Corpse

Name: One Extra Corpse
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by Barbara Hambly Book 2 in the Silver Screen Historical Mysteries series.

First published 2023

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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 that does not fit the scene around it.

The studio’s elaborate production provides both spectacle and concealment. Emma follows disputes over money, creative control and personal loyalties, while the machinery of filmmaking allows evidence to be moved, staged or dismissed as part of the picture. To identify the killer, she must separate the planned illusion from the crime hidden inside it.