The Devil's Playground

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The Devil's Playground

The Devil's Playground

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Diversions into the bayous of Louisiana and the Nebraska prairie seemed just that, and let's to get back to Mary. A Yale sophomore fights for her life as she balances academics with supernatural extracurriculars in this smart fantasy thriller, the second in a series. Unfortunately, the studio initially labeled the death a “natural causes” story and only later discovered it was indeed murder. The characters in the book are interesting and I was engaged with some of them, main character Mary Rourke in particular.

He senses a greater absence: no photographs grace the walls or punctuate the bookshelves; no painting hangs from the picture rail.Indeed, Tinseltown aficionados and fans of the likes of James Ellroy and Raymond Chandler will devour The Devil’s Playground, as will any reader who appreciates a tightly plotted, propulsive story filled with multilayered characters. An] excellent, engrossing historical horror novel, one that explores the symbiosis of power and evil in the Golden Age of Hollywood. He offers a complex cast and brilliantly weaves their backstories throughout the book as he takes the reader back and forth in time. Her sections often have a noirish tone that sets them apart from the somewhat gothic atmosphere in the other time frames.

As he comes nearer, he gradually makes sense of it: a huge old house, tall and stark, with a jumble of mock-­Victorian gables and mansard roofs stabbing the sterile pale-­blue shield of sky.

Whenever a possible scandal arises, it’s up to Mary to show up first and do damage control, taking care of anything that needs sweeping under the rug. The dialogue is excellent and the main character, Mary O’Rourke, is a smart mouth movie studio fixer turned investigator. She wears the Vulture Crown of ancient Egypt, topped with a golden Uraeus cobra, its rearing head in turn sun-disk crowned. She gives a small, tense nod, her resolve not to cry a fragile dam straining against the weight of shock and grief.

Forty years later, Paul Conway, a film historian and journalist, is hired to track down what might just be the only copy of the film in existence. For the producers of The Devil’s Playground, that meant going bigger, bolder and more extraordinary than anything that had been seen before. As a mystery, there's not a false note in The Devil's Playground," with Mary and her crooked cop poking their noses into sensitive places as the story becomes increasingly sticky and strange.I liked her strength and tenacity, and her determination to get to the bottom of what had really happened when Hollywood starlet, Norma Carlton, was murdered. I probably helps that I have always thought the Golden Age of Hollywood was interesting and so very glamourous. The house backs onto a long, wide depression, like a vast shallow crater, a mile wide and two long, paler than the desert beyond it and almost white in patches. When its star is discovered dead in her home, that is only the beginning of the tragic events that begin to plague the production of The Devil’s Playground. Mary moves through the underworld of studio power and a corrupt Los Angeles Police Department as she digs into Norma’s death.

Considered by many to be the most desirable woman in the world, the woman on the bed is indeed very beautiful. The first television adaptation in Germany, by Tivoli Films, of a Jan Fabel novel attracted an audience of six million viewers.

The Devil’s Playground, set partly in a richly evoked 1920s Hollywood, plays like Chinatown meets The Ring, and it’s the most sheerly entertaining novel I’ve raced through in at least a year … fresh, forceful, elegant but wild. The sludge he drank didn’t kill him as quick as he thought it would,” she explains in the same passionless tone. Loved the setting, loved the mystery and loved the sense of danger and tension which simmered throughout each and every chapter. We also are introduced to an alleged voodoo queen in the Louisiana swamp back in 1907 and even further back the author takes us to introduce many aspects of the plot, all of which add to the mystery of Norma's death, the cursed movie production, and missing young girls who flocked to Hollywood in the early days of film to become the next big star. In the former timeline, we follow journalist and film buff Paul Conway on his quest to track down the last known existing copy of The Devil’s Playground, purported to be the most terrifying silent film ever made.



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