The Lost Monroe Author:R. J. Ellis Blaine Barrow is writing a biography of his late grandfather, Jake Barrow, a famous movie director from the the 1940's through the 1960's.In the process of conducting research for the book,Blaine discovers some disturbing information: In 1953 his grandfather was involved in a sensational murder case in which blonde boys were abducted, raped, and... more » killed. When the case broke, Jake was directing Death Song, staring Marilyn Monroe. The studio never released the film--indeed, at the time, they issued a statement simply stating that the film negative had been destroyed. In Hollywood lore, the never-released film soon became known as The Lost Monroe. Why was the film destroyed? To get at the truth, Blaine visits a nursing home to interview the film's only surviving star, Carmen Calais. Charmed by the sudden attention, the eighty-year-old Carmen decides to tell him what she has never told anyone--the full story of The Lost Monroe. In the process, she takes him and the reader back to the Hollywood of 1953 where they meet characters real and fictional--and learn the true and harrowing story of a series of sensational murders that take place against the backdrop of the filming of The Lost Monroe.« less