Murder in Tinseltown: A Hollywood Era Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Mystery
By (Author) Max Nightingale
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperNorth
14th March 2025
21st November 2024
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Comic (humorous) crime and mystery
Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives
Adventure / action fiction
Fiction: special features: game-related
823.92
Hardback
256
Width 141mm, Height 222mm, Spine 22mm
940g
Can your sleuthing skills help identify the murderer of a Hollywood starlet
Los Angeles, 1958.
The biggest, brightest and best names in Hollywood have gathered at the Royale Premiere Hotel on the eve of the biggest awards show of the year.
Things take a devilish turn when leading lady Blanche Aikerman is found murdered in her room.
With a list of suspects as long as Aikermans accolades and credits, YOU are thrust into the action and must fully immerse yourself in the role of an LAPD homicide detective on the scene to hunt, capture and correctly charge the culprit.
Blending all the fun and appeal of the traditional hard-boiled detective story with a classic choose-your-own-adventure model, the book puts you right in the thick of the action. Larger-than-life characters, cunning suspects and puzzles will try to throw you off the scent as you are presented with a series of choices at every turn of the page.
Be cautious though as only one path will lead you to the right killer, others may not lead to the results that youre seeking .
Transporting the reader right into the heart of 1950s Los Angeles, Murder in Tinsel Town is a brand-new story full of head-scratching interactions and clues set against the glamorous backdrop of Hollywoods Golden Era.
To come
Born and raised in the gritty backstreets of LA, Max Nightingale has lived within the city's dark underworld and brooding atmosphere for decades. A former private investigator turned full-time author, Nightingale's cases have been written up, including the false leads and untrustworthy statements that changed the course of his investigation, and gives you the chance to solve the case with all the evidence that was available to Max at the time. One of his most famous cases was the murder of the famed Hollywood starlet Blanche Aikerman, which has been detailed for the very first time in Murder in Tinseltown. Can you find the culprit any quicker