One Extra Corpse

Name: One Extra Corpse
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Barbara Hambly
ISBN: 9781705012574

Author: Barbara Hambly

Series: Silver Screen Mysteries #2

Narrator: Pilar Witherspoon

Unabridged: 9 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/07/2023

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Historical Fiction, Amateur Sleuth, Women Sleuths

Synopsis

May, 1924. It’s been seven months since young British widow Emma Blackstone arrived in Hollywood to serve as companion to Kitty Flint: her beautiful, silentmovie star sister-in-law. Kitty is generous, kind-hearted … and a truly terrible actress. Not that Emma minds; she’s too busy
making her academic parents turn in their graves with her new job writing painfully historically inaccurate scenarios for Foremost Studios, in between wrangling their leading lady out of the arms of her army of amorous suitors.

So when one of Kitty’s old flames, renowned film director Ernest Zapolya, calls Emma and tells her it’s imperative he meet with Kitty that morning, she’s not surprised. Until, that is, he adds that lives depend on it. Ernest sounds frightened. But what can have scared him
so badly—and what on earth does cheerful, flighty Kitty have to do with it?

Only Ernest can provide the answers, and Kitty and Emma travel to the set of his extravagant new movie to find them. But the shocking discovery they make there only raises further questions … including: will they stay alive long enough to solve the murderous puzzle?

About Barbara Hambly

Barbara Hambly is a New York Times bestselling author of fantasy and science fiction, as well as historical novels set in the nineteenth century. After receiving a master's degree in medieval history, she published The Time of the Dark, the first novel in the Darwath saga, in 1982, establishing herself as an author of serious speculative fiction. Since then she has created several series, including the Windrose Chronicles, Sun-Cross, and Sun Wolf and Starhawk, in addition to writing for the Star Wars and Star Trek universes.

Besides fantasy, Hambly has won acclaim for the James Asher vampire series, which won the Locus Award for best horror novel in 1989, and the Benjamin January mystery series, featuring a brilliant African-American surgeon in antebellum New Orleans. She lives in Los Angeles.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Maria on March 06, 2023

This book is the second in a series, but I read this as a standalone. Overall, it is an interesting book set in old world Hollywood, well researched with a good story. However I struggled to settle into the writing style. In my opinion the overly long sentences felt like every description had an unn......more

Goodreads review by Susan on March 24, 2023

Widowed young Englishwoman Emma finds herself assisting her sister-in-law actress Kitty in 1920's Hollywood, and also trying to write scenarios for the silent films. Emma is falling in love with a studio cameraman who is the opposite of the handsome actors who throng around Kitty, and who readily as......more

Goodreads review by Annarella on March 24, 2023

This is a very enjoyable series: well plotted, compelling, mixing historical characters with fiction, and featuring a solid mystery that always keeps me guessing. There's plenty of twists and surprises, Emma and Kitty are as likeable as before and there's an evolution in these character. The cultural......more

Goodreads review by Paulette on June 10, 2023

OK read. I probably won't read subsequent books in the series. I just don't like the characters enough.......more

Goodreads review by Jean-Luc on February 20, 2023

Murder, glamour and total mayhem on a movie set are some of the compelling ingredients that the reader will encounter in this new addition to Ms Hambly's marvellous Silver Screen Historical Mystery Series, a delicious literary cocktail full of flamboyant characters, sparkling dialogues and lots of f......more