Neil Brand races to find a killer and blackmailer before the career of a beautiful young actress is ruined.
Rachel Anne Maddon is about to become America’s next great movie star. Adored by the camera, loved by her public, beautiful Rachel Anne has it all, including a dark secret from her past that threatens to blow up her promising future when her mentor and lover—a man old enough to be her father—turns up dead. Did he fall or was he pushed? Or did the bullet in him do the job? Either way, a homicide investigation will be deadly publicity for Rachel Anne and her family.
Rachel Anne’s movie studio switches into high gear to protect her teetering career, but then Neil Brand, the studio’s security chief, uncovers a blackmail scheme over illicit sex films that threatens other major motion picture stars. As the heat builds, the rich and powerful scramble to get out from under.
That’s when the bodies begin to pile up.
Excerpt
I had the evidence of a motive…now, what was I going to do with it?
We got the sixteen-mm film going and Hughie came upright in his seat as soon as it started. The nude man on the flickering screen rated about twenty. The girl—beautiful and delicate with a round angelic face—couldn’t have been more than fifteen. The poor lighting and the deep shadows caused images to appear to flicker in the wavering light, but what the two performers were doing left nothing to imagine.
After a few minutes I told Hughie to turn off the projector. We threaded the second spool and started it up again. A different man, mid-twenties, loomed out of the shaded scene, dallying with the same girl, slightly older in this flickers. The naked nymph in those flickering shadows raised my hackles. No way could anyone mistake Rachel Anne Maddon.
“I’d have to say those two youngsters were almighty active,” Hughie said, grinning brightly. “You make the girl?”
I nodded, said nothing. I put the two film reels back in the box, but I had no intention of leaving them in my office. “Hughie, you need to forget you ever saw this.”
Dunnum picked up the projector. “Can’t say I’ll ever forget I saw that. But I can remember that I didn’t see it, if anybody asks.”
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Reviews for "The Naked Nymph in the Dark Flickers"
Wow! Once again, Ray Dyson has done it!!! Excellent book. 'The Naked Nymph in the Dark Flickers' is a wonderful sequel to 'The Ice Cream Blonde.' The story is set once again in the world of film and stars. The plots are detailed and very entertaining. You will find love, hate, crime, passion, greed, murder and more provided by very compelling characters that follows twists and turns on every page. I know it is an old saying, 'a book you can't put down,' but it truly is a book you don't want to put down.
Ray Dyson has carried over some of the best characters from 'The Ice Cream Blonde' and continues to follow their lives, successes and failures. If I had to find one fault, it would be, I would have enjoyed more of the 'flowery, poetic speak' from the character 'Harry.'
If you enjoy a good mystery or have a love for the cinema, you will enjoy 'The Naked Nymph in the Dark Flickers.' Wonderful read...
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