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The Devil's Stronghold — Leslie Ford
What this Mystery is about --
…TWO MURDERS and a NEAR SUICIDE in a Hollywood hotel… The WRONG CORPSE at the foot of a stone stairway… A LETTER which frightens a mother into heading for Hollywood posthaste… A TELEPHONE exuding sinister rasping sounds at measured intervals… Several puzzles surrounding a length of GREEN STRING… A EVENING BAG that, by being left in a telephone booth, fouls up a murder… SMALL DOGS sitting like so many little statues near a body… A blood-stained BAYONET… A mass of CHARRED PAPER belonging to a dead man… A fantastic CHINESE ROOM that is the scene of grisly events… A DIAMOND BRACELET buried for years… A SCENARIO containing gag techniques for murder which prove to be horribly effective.
Wouldn't You Like to Know --
Why Lucille thought Grace's son was making a complete ass of himself?
The meaning of sinister and puzzling doings which dogged Grace's first hours in Hollywood?
Why an intended victim should try so desperately to cover up for the murderer?
Why the movie script had to be burned immediately upon the death of its possessor?
Why Molly McShane turns tiger at any mention of the woman who wants to make her a movie star?
How a curious personal habit is the indirect means of a ghastly death?
YOU will learn the answers as with Mrs. Latham and Colonel Primrose you try to solve this fascinating mystery which has a Hollywood locale plus malevolence in concentrated doses and death -- the devil's stronghold
GRACE LATHAM, a good-natured widow, who is a sort of Typhoid Mary where murder is concerned, is called to Hollywood to try to restrain her student son from making a fool of himself.
COLONEL PRIMROSE, whose chief concerns are Mrs. Latham and murder investigations, has black, x-ray eyes and a bland manner, behind which is a mind as alert as a hound dog at a rabbit hole.
BILL LATHAM, Mrs. Latham's son, clean-cut, straightforward, isn't the type to make an ass of himself over anything, but now he seems to be doing just that.
MOLLY MCSHANE, a student at U.C.L.A, is being groomed by Bill and Sheep Clarke to be a movie star. Neck-deep in something, but few know what, her personality alternates between that of a vicious tiger kitten and a shorn little lamb.
SHEEP CLARKE, Bill's pal, is a student and a waiter at the Casa del Rosal. He is for Molly and he doesn't care who knows it. However, he says he doesn't love her.
VIOLA KERSEY, star of the silent screen, can't remember whether she's tossed two or three husbands in the marital garbage can. Viola would like to make a come-back but doesn't know how to do it.
LUCILLE GANNON, a producer's wife, a time-worn glamour girl, who races through life at breakneck speed. Twice, she has kicked over the traces and left two decent husbands gasping.
GEORGE (GEE GEE) GANNON, Lucille's third husband, is supposedly hiding in the Casa del Rosal while he works on a new script.
EUSTACE (STINKY) SYPE, a writer whose nickname aptly describes his personality, apes the oriental in appearance and living.
ROSE SHAVIN, maid at the Casa, seems to have taken Molly under her wing. She is stern and brooks no nonsense.
MORRY SHAVIN, Rose's husband, looks like and unobtrusive little mole who has taken to night watching at the Casa to avoid sunshine.
…TWO MURDERS and a NEAR SUICIDE in a Hollywood hotel… The WRONG CORPSE at the foot of a stone stairway… A LETTER which frightens a mother into heading for Hollywood posthaste… A TELEPHONE exuding sinister rasping sounds at measured intervals… Several puzzles surrounding a length of GREEN STRING… A EVENING BAG that, by being left in a telephone booth, fouls up a murder… SMALL DOGS sitting like so many little statues near a body… A blood-stained BAYONET… A mass of CHARRED PAPER belonging to a dead man… A fantastic CHINESE ROOM that is the scene of grisly events… A DIAMOND BRACELET buried for years… A SCENARIO containing gag techniques for murder which prove to be horribly effective.
Wouldn't You Like to Know --
Why Lucille thought Grace's son was making a complete ass of himself?
The meaning of sinister and puzzling doings which dogged Grace's first hours in Hollywood?
Why an intended victim should try so desperately to cover up for the murderer?
Why the movie script had to be burned immediately upon the death of its possessor?
Why Molly McShane turns tiger at any mention of the woman who wants to make her a movie star?
How a curious personal habit is the indirect means of a ghastly death?
YOU will learn the answers as with Mrs. Latham and Colonel Primrose you try to solve this fascinating mystery which has a Hollywood locale plus malevolence in concentrated doses and death -- the devil's stronghold
GRACE LATHAM, a good-natured widow, who is a sort of Typhoid Mary where murder is concerned, is called to Hollywood to try to restrain her student son from making a fool of himself.
COLONEL PRIMROSE, whose chief concerns are Mrs. Latham and murder investigations, has black, x-ray eyes and a bland manner, behind which is a mind as alert as a hound dog at a rabbit hole.
BILL LATHAM, Mrs. Latham's son, clean-cut, straightforward, isn't the type to make an ass of himself over anything, but now he seems to be doing just that.
MOLLY MCSHANE, a student at U.C.L.A, is being groomed by Bill and Sheep Clarke to be a movie star. Neck-deep in something, but few know what, her personality alternates between that of a vicious tiger kitten and a shorn little lamb.
SHEEP CLARKE, Bill's pal, is a student and a waiter at the Casa del Rosal. He is for Molly and he doesn't care who knows it. However, he says he doesn't love her.
VIOLA KERSEY, star of the silent screen, can't remember whether she's tossed two or three husbands in the marital garbage can. Viola would like to make a come-back but doesn't know how to do it.
LUCILLE GANNON, a producer's wife, a time-worn glamour girl, who races through life at breakneck speed. Twice, she has kicked over the traces and left two decent husbands gasping.
GEORGE (GEE GEE) GANNON, Lucille's third husband, is supposedly hiding in the Casa del Rosal while he works on a new script.
EUSTACE (STINKY) SYPE, a writer whose nickname aptly describes his personality, apes the oriental in appearance and living.
ROSE SHAVIN, maid at the Casa, seems to have taken Molly under her wing. She is stern and brooks no nonsense.
MORRY SHAVIN, Rose's husband, looks like and unobtrusive little mole who has taken to night watching at the Casa to avoid sunshine.
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