Toby hunts for the man who wants to kill a fallen star of silent film As Toby Peters crouches behind a tombstone, hiding from a crazed gunman, the private eye thinks of Charlie Chaplin. A few days earlier, the pioneer of film comedy sat in Toby's office, and told him of the hundreds of people who want him dead. Beloved when his public could not hear him speak, his political leanings have made him a pariah. Right-wing radicals, the Ku Klux Klan, and...

To bridal boutique owner Madeline Krug, organizing a Christmas wedding sounds like a joy, until she finds out she'll be working closely with the gorgeous brother of the bride, movie star Jonny Blaze. How will a small-town girl like her keep from falling for the world's sexiest guy? Especially with mistletoe lurking around every corner!

The place: Hollywood. The time: 1940. The case: protect Warner Brothers' biggest star Errol Flynn. The detective: the toughest and wittiest in many a paper moon ... Toby Peters.

This book has been a bestseller on the Amazon Charts. Jack Palms starred in one hit Hollywood action flick. Now everyone thinks he's still that guy. If he tries to lead the life, will he get burned? Or will he find out he can still act the part? An old friend from LA calls with a proposition-to show some Czech high rollers a VIP time-and Jack goes in for the payday. When his friend is murdered, Jack dives straight into the heart of San Francisco's...

In 1940s Hollywood, PI Toby Peters is hired by Fred Astaire to serve as a dancing partner for a gangster's moll learning to dance. A strenuous assignment as Peters is no dancer, but before you know it the moll is killed and Peters is once again in his element. By the author of Tomorrow Is Another Day.

"Frustrated with the sad state of her dating life, restaurateur Chloe Anderson penned a single romance novel featuring the man of her dreams. Upon the book's publication, the hero resonated with thousands of women, catapulting the book to the top of the bestsellers list and earning the novel a movie option. Chloe is thrilled a production company wants to bring her movie to the big screen and film it right in her hometown, Stillwater Bay, North Carolina....

"Hugo Marston has just joined the State Department as head of security at the US Embassy in London. His task is to protect a pair of spoiled movie stars, Dayton Harper and his wife Ginny Ferro, whose reckless driving killed a prominent landowner in rural England"--

Despite her unconventional upbringing as the daughter of a superstar actress, Nicki Harper has managed to carve out a somewhat normal life as a real estate agent. But things change when movie legend Rex March is found murdered in the bed of Nicki's best friend. Not wanting to trust the police, Nicki sets out to solve the crime on her own. There are plenty of people who wanted Rex dead, and Nicki has to find out who that is before she meets her own...

In this noir crime classic about one of the most notorious trials in American history--the 1921 manslaughter case against silent-screen comedy star Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle--Dashiell Hammett ivestigates what really happened at Arbuckle's San Francisco party and discovers a truth that will change American legal history--and his own life forever.

"The Star City Film Festival has taken the Utah ski resort town by storm. Movie stars are everywhere, including The Rescued Word, where Clare Henry and her grandfather restore old typewriters and beloved books. When cinema's hottest superhero, Matt Bane, enters their store to buy some personalized notecards, it's hard not to be starstruck, and when Clare sees the police leading Matt out of his hotel in handcuffs only a few hours later, she's convinced...