Doom List

1922. 'Movie czar' Will H. Hays is on a mission to clean up Hollywood by compiling the Doom List - a list of 'undesirables' whom he plans to bar from screen work. Private investigator Tom Collins is hired to protect a leading lady's reputation at all costs, and is drawn into a case of scandal, forbidden passion, blackmail, and cold-blooded murder.

About the author

Gerard O'Donovan is an Irish journalist and TV critic for the Daily Telegraph. Shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association's Debut Dagger Award, he is the author of three previous highly-acclaimed crime novels, including one previous Tom Collins mystery.

Summary

1922. 'Movie czar' Will H. Hays is on a mission to clean up Hollywood by compiling the Doom List - a list of 'undesirables' whom he plans to bar from screen work. Private investigator Tom Collins is hired to protect a leading lady's reputation at all costs, and is drawn into a case of scandal, forbidden passion, blackmail, and cold-blooded murder.

Product details

• Authors: Gerard O'Donovan, Gerard O''donovan, O'Donovan Gerard
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9780727889034
• ISBN: 978-0-7278-8903-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: A Tom Collins Mystery
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Hollywood, Zwischen den Weltkriegen (1919 bis 1939 n. Chr.), FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION / Historical / General, Historical mysteries, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators, c 1920 to c 1929, Historical crime and mysteries, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / General