The Ghost and the Femme Fatale
Alice Kimberly

The Movie Town Theater is holding its first ever Film Noir Festival, with Penelope Thornton-McClure handling book sales for the guest speakers, including screen actress Hedda Geist. The legendary femme fatale has been out of the spotlight for decades. Unfortunately, the moment she steps back into it, she's nearly killed. Then other guests start to die, and Penelope wants to know why her little town's film noir weekend has taken a truly dark turn.

With local police on the wrong track, Penelope enlists the help of Jack Shepard, PI. Okay, so Jack hasn't had a heartbeat since 1949, when he was gunned down in what is now Pen's store. But the hard-boiled ghost actually remembers Hedda's dark past and Penelope is sure he can help solve this case—even if he and his license did expire more than fifty years ago...

(A Haunted Bookshop Mystery #4)
Berkley (Prime Crime), May 2008
256 pages ISBN: 0425218384
Paperback
$6.99

Also by Alice Kimberly:
The Ghost and the Dead Man's Library, September 2006
The Ghost And The Dead Deb, September 2005
The Ghost and Mrs. McClure, February 2004

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