Get Shorty
Chili Palmer, a Miami loan shark, pursues a mark, who's behind in payments, to Las Vegas and then to Hollywood where Harry Zimm has gambled away the $200,000 earmarked for his next production.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: motion picture industry [X], criminals, organized crime, motion picture producers and directors, mystery fiction [X], hollywood (los angeles, calif.) [X]
Scavenger Hunt
Tabloid reporter Jimmy Gage embarks on a dangerous exploration of the underworld of Hollywood and the Los Angeles Police Department when he sets out to the learn the truth about the death of Garrett Walsh, a former director who was boasting he had written a script that revealed the truth about the conspiracy that sent him to jail for the drug-related death of a starlet.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: motion picture industry [X], journalists, mystery fiction [X], hollywood (los angeles, calif.) [X]
The Silver Blonde
In 1946 Hollywood, eighteen-year-old Clara Berg dreams of becoming a film editor and going on a real date with handsome yet unpredictable screenwriter Gil, until she stumbles upon a murder mystery.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 16
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: dating (social customs), motion picture industry [X], mystery fiction [X], mystery and detective stories, hollywood (los angeles, calif.) [X], detective and mystery fiction