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Summary: Nancy, Bess, and George visit the Hollywood set of the movie "The Aliens Next Door", and try to solve the mystery of the missing leading cat star, Fluffington.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC KEECopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED KEEHambly, Barbara
Summary: "1924. After six months in Hollywood, young British widow Emma Blackstone has come to love her new employer, glamourous movie-star Kitty Flint--even if her late husband's sister is one of the worst actresses she's ever seen. Looking after Kitty and her three adorable Pekinese dogs isn't work academically-minded Emma dreamed of, but Kitty rescued her when she was all alone in the world. Now, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2021
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Summary: There's chaos in Hollywood at the end of the New Year's Eve countdown. Working her graveyard shift, LAPD detective Renée Ballard is called to a scene where a hardworking auto shop owner has been fatally hit by a bullet in the middle of a crowded street party. Ballard quickly concludes that the bullet is linked to another unsolved murder--a case at one time worked by Detective Harry Bosch. At...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CONConnelly, Michael
Summary: Renée Ballard returns to Hollywood Station from working the night beat. She finds a stranger rifling through old file cabinets-- retired detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin. Ballard kicks him out, but then checks into the case herself. Bosch is investigating the death of fifteen-year-old Daisy Clayton, a runaway on the streets of Hollywood who was brutally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY CONHambly, Barbara
Summary: May, 1924. When renowned film director Ernst Zapolya calls Emma Blackstone - companion to Hollywood movie star Kitty Flint - and demands to see Kitty at once, Emma's not surprised. Until, that is, he adds that lives depend on it. Emma and Kitty investigate, and after a shocking discovery, the lives on the line soon include their own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMWoods, Stuart.
Summary: Stone Barrington receives a rather unexpected phone call from Arrington Calder, the ex-girlfriend with whom he has a son. Arrington's much older husband, the actor Vance Calder, has just died, leaving her a fortune in Centurion Studios stock. Arrington has plans for the money and asks Stone to represent her in the sale of the company. But when he arrives at her home in Bel-Air to finalize the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD M WOOWambaugh, Joseph.
Summary: A circle of teenage burglars that the media has dubbed The Bling Ring has taken to pillaging the homes of Hollywood celebutants, and when a pair of drug-addled young copycats stumbles upon an art heist, that's just the beginning of the disaster to come. Soon LAPD veteran "Hollywood Nate" Weiss, surfer cops Flotsam and Jetsam, and the rest of the team at Hollywood Station have a deadly situation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Wambaugh 2010Connelly, Michael
Summary: Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. A once up-and-coming detective, she's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor. But one night she catches two cases she doesn't want to part with: the brutal beating of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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Summary: "Film detective Valentino is summoned to the estate of Ignacio Bozel to collect a prized donation to the university's movie library: Bleak Street, a film from the classic noir period, thought lost for more than sixty years. Bleak Street was never released. Its star, Van Oliver, a gifted and charismatic actor with alleged ties to the mob, disappeared while the project was in post-production,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Estleman 2020Connelly, Michael
Summary: Renée Ballard catches two cases she doesn't want to part with: the brutal beating of a prostitute and the killing of a young woman in a nightclub shooting. Against orders and her own partner's wishes, Ballard works both cases by day while maintaining her shift by night.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC CONEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: "Film detective Valentino is summoned to the estate of Ignacio Bozel to collect a prized donation to the university's movie library:Bleak Street, a film from the classic noir period, thought lost for more than sixty years. Bleak Street was never released. Its star, Van Oliver, a gifted and charismatic actor with alleged ties to the mob, disappeared while the project was in post-production,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ESTPatrick, Renee
Summary: Los Angeles, 1937. Lillian Frost has traded dreams of stardom for security as a department store salesgirl...until she discovers she's a suspect in the murder of her former roommate, Ruby Carroll. Party girl Ruby died wearing a gown she stole from the wardrobe department at Paramount Pictures, domain of Edith Head. Edith has yet to win the first of her eight Academy Awards; right now she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATKellerman, Jonathan.
Summary: The legend of the Golem of Prague has endured through the ages: a creature fashioned by a sixteenth-century rabbi to protect his congregation, now lying dormant in the garret of a synagogue. But the Golem is dormant no longer ... Detective Jacob Lev wakes one morning, dazed and confused: He seems to have picked up a beautiful woman in a bar the night before, but he can't remember anything about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Kellerman 2014Wambaugh, Joseph.
Summary: A young longshoreman's delivery of a Mexican dancer from the busy harbor of San Pedro to a Hollywood nightclub changes both of their lives when they encounter individuals on opposing sides of the law, including surfer cops Flotsam and Jetsam, aspiring actor Hollywood Nate, and young Britney Small.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WAMWambaugh, Joseph
Summary: There is saying at Hollywood station that the full moon brings out the beast, rather than the best, in the precinct's citizens. One moonlit night, LAPD veteran Dana Vaughn and "Hollywood" Nate Weiss, a struggling actor turned cop, get a call about a young man who's been attacking women. Meanwhile, two surfer cops known as Flotsam and Jetsam keep bumping into an odd, suspicious duo, a smooth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Wambaugh 2009Wambaugh, Joseph.
Summary: When LAPD cops Hollywood Nate and Bix Rumstead find themselves caught up with bombshell Margot Aziz, they think they're just having some fun. But in Hollywood, nothing is ever what it seems. To them, Margot is a harmless socialite, stuck in the middle of an ugly divorce from the nefarious nightclub-owner Ali Aziz. What Nate and Bix don't know is that Margot's no helpless victim: the femme...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAMEvans, Harriet
Summary: "From international favorite and bestseller Harriet Evans, an absorbing and intriguing new novel about a famous modern-day actress whose fate becomes entwined with that of a glamourous movie star from the 1950s who vanished many years earlier"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVAConnelly, Michael
Summary: Teaming up with Harry Bosch to reopen a cold case, LAPD detective Renée Ballard navigates interpersonal differences to pursue justice for a murdered runaway in Hollywood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction ConEstleman, Loren D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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Summary: "Teddy Fay is back in Hollywood and caught in two tricky situations. First, a rising star at Centurion becomes the target of malicious gossip, and Teddy must find and neutralize the source before the situation gets out of hand--or becomes violent. At thesame time, Teddy finds himself targeted by a criminal thug bearing a grudge. It's a lot of knives to juggle, even for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Woods 2020Woods, Stuart
Summary: "Teddy Fay is back in Hollywood and caught in two tricky situations. First, a rising star at Centurion becomes the target of malicious gossip, and Teddy must find and neutralize the source before the situation gets out of hand - or becomes violent. At the same time, Teddy finds himself targeted by a criminal thug bearing a grudge. It's a lot of knives to juggle, even for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WOOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WOOEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: "Bela Lugosi's Frankenstein screen test puts Valentino in the picture for murder. Everyone knows the Frankenstein monster was played by Boris Karloff. His portrayal is so famous that the play Arsenic and Old Lace was filled with Karloff/monster jokes--even when the part of the monstrously deformed villain was played by another actor. But before Karloff's memorable portrayal, another famous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTHaines, Carolyn.
Summary: "Southern gal Sarah Booth Delaney packs up her hound dog and her P.I. business and sets off for Hollywood to take a shot at stardom. No stranger to acting, she aces the screen test for a racy remake of the movie Body Heat alongside leading man Graf Miliau. The chemistry between them is undeniable, and why not? Graf has already starred in one of Sarah's previous affairs and is well on his way to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAIEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: "A killer is reenacting the deaths of Hollywood's blond bombshells, and Valentino must stop him before it's too late in Loren D. Estleman's Brazen. UCLA film archivist and sometime film detective Valentino doesn't take friend and former actress Beata Limerick very seriously when she tells him that she quit acting because of the curse on blond actresses. Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Thelma...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge Books 2016