Saving Susy Sweetchild

"July, 1924. After nine months of living in Hollywood and working as a companion to her beautiful silent-movie star sister-in-law, young British widow Emma Blackstone is settling into her new role: doctoring film scenarios whenever the regular scenarist is overwhelmed with work, which seems to be most of the time. Shoots for the Western movie Our Tiny Miracle are in full swing, with little seven-year-old Susy Sweetchild playing the lead and acting most professionally. Maybe too professionally, Emma thinks, shocked to the core when the child star is nearly killed in a stunt scene and her mother-former screen siren Selina Sutton-seems only to care that Susy gets the job done. But Emma's concerns only worsen when news reaches her that Susy and her mother have been kidnapped. The ransom note says to keep the cops out of it, so it's up to Emma and Kitty to find them before the unthinkable happens and Emma is forced to rewrite Our Tiny Miracle with a far more tragic ending...--

About the author

Barbara Hambly, though a native of Southern California, lived in New Orleans for many years while married to the late science fiction writer George Alec Effinger. Hambly holds a degree in medieval history from the University of California and has written novels in numerous genres.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Hambly, Hambly Barbara
• Publisher: Canongate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.09.2024
• EAN: 9781448311057
• ISBN: 978-1-4483-1105-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: A Silver Screen historical mystery
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Hollywood, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, Historical mysteries, Historical crime and mysteries, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, c 1919 to c 1929 (The Jazz Age), FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / General, FICTION / Performing Arts / Film, Television & Radio