The Plot Against Marlene Dietrich
Author
Henry F. Mazel
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Hollywood's most glamorous star is now a target for elimination by German military intelligence. Blending historical fact and fiction, Henry Mazel creates a gripping mystery thriller set in New York and Hollywood on the eve of World War II. Mazel's case-hardened detective, Alex Rada, whose moral compass doesn't always point north, has comes across two bodies on a lonely Coney Island beach. One is the most alluring woman in the world, the other a black man half-clothed lying face down in the sand. For Rada this isn't business as usual. He has a personal stake, a very personal stake in trying to figure out who killed the pair. His search for the assassin leads Rada though the ethnic jazz world of the Harlem Renaissance and into glitzy, romantic side of 1930s Hollywood in this taut noir mystery. With a backdrop of the racial and ethnic inequities of the time, and the horrific plight of the artists and refugees who Marlene Dietrich helped escape Nazi Germany, the novelette wends its way through betrayal and the betrayed. And almost everyone, including Alex Rada himself, is out to save their own necks:
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