Warwick Easton is a cop - a movie cop, that is. When this vaudevillian lands in California, his screen prospects look bleak. But a bathtub meeting with Mack Sennett, lands him a stunts-and-chases job. Danger is to be expected in the work of Keystone Cops - but murder is quite another thing.

A good murder mystery set in the days of silent movies. I'm not really one for period whodunit's but this had an air of realism to it that had me pretty much convinced as to both the crazy world of the film studios & the power that men such as Mack Sennet held.

The storyline worked well enough with a few twists & turns along the way to keep it entertaining. The main character, Warwick Easton, was believable enough but I don't feel I really got to know him. His character was supposed to be aloof (or so it seemed to me) so the feeling of detachment towards him made sense. The book had the feel of the start of a series, as if more about this character would be revealed over the course of further stories. However, it's a standalone & that's probably for the best as though I enjoyed this delve into the past, it's not a setting I'd care to keep re-visiting.

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