Bullet for a Star Author:Stuart Kaminsky Bullet for a Star -- in which murder stalks the sumptuous sets and glamorous stars of Hollywood's just beginning-to-tarnish Golden Era. — The place: Los Angeles. The time: 1940. The case: To protect Warner Brothers' hottest property, Errol Flynn from blackmail -- and perhaps murder. Was the scandalous and compromising photo of Flynn and a very, ... more »very young girl a fraud? Who was littering Hollywood with corpses? What role were Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, and Humphrey Bogart to play - both on the Maltese Falcon set and off? And just how much was Warner Brothers paying MGM-rejected screenwriter William Faulkner for two weeks' work?
Bullet for a Star is a tale as fast-paced and unforgettable as the immortal films shot on the Warner lot.« less