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MURDER ON THE FILM SET

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It’s April 1958. Inspector Morris and Constable Briggs are investigat­ing the suspicious death of actress Bette starr. she was killed while shooting a scene for her new film – stabbed by her co-star and secret lover, GREGORY HOLLIDAY. He believed he was using a prop dagger with a retractabl­e blade. But someone had swapped the fake dagger for a real one. did Gregory know? or is the culprit someone else? Perhaps it was Bette’s cuckolded husband, OSCAR J. HUMPHREYS III, or her jealous twin sister, Judy Starr? or could it be screenwrit­er Gene Romano, aggrieved by changes Bette made to his script? the fifth suspect is EVE Audrey ‘Holly’ Wood, who says she was Bette’s biggest fan but who had been sending poison-pen letters in green ink. on leaving the studios, Morris and Briggs found an envelope on their car windscreen containing the first clue. on the second day of their inquiry they arrive at the police station to find another envelope — pinned to the front door. Inside is a second film image, a poster from Born yesterday starring Judy Holliday. Clearly, the anonymous tipster is giving the police another piece of the jigsaw. But what connects these clues? And who murdered Bette starr?

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