ROUND UP THE USUAL SUSPECTS

Against the backdrop of WWII, no one expected to find a murdered stagehand on a Warner Brothers sound stage. With so much at stake, Jack L. Warner hires Babs Norman and Guy Brandt, the two young private eyes who recently resolved his high-profile Maltese Falcon/Blackbird Killer Case. Social justice crusader Leon Lewis suspects local Nazi sympathizers are responsible. Lewis assigns a German stuntman, a veteran of the decadent subculture of Weimar Berlin nightlife and one of his newest operatives, to join forces with the private detectives.

According to Warner, the show must go on, but everything from bomb scares to the Japanese internment, to unruly parrots, forbidden love, and family crises conspires against solving the crime. “As Time Goes By,” actors Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and the rest of the Casablanca ensemble join the professional private eyes to round up the unusual suspects and capture the killer.

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"Fans of the movie Casablanca will love Round Up the Unusual Suspects! It was a pleasure to spend time with fictional versions of Bogart and Bergman and imagine what life on the set must have been like. The author has worked on many movies and TV shows, which made the book feel very authentic. Throw in a fun mystery, feisty PIs, some history about the 40s for people who were a little out of the mainstream, and you get an entertaining, thought-provoking read."

~ Matt Witten, bestselling author of Killer Story

and Emmy-nominated screenwriter for Pretty Little Liars and House

“A witty, winning mystery that unfolds as a love letter to the golden age of Hollywood. Play it again, Elizabeth!”

~ Daniel Stashower, Edgar Award-winning New York Times bestselling author

of The Hour of Peril and American Demon

"A murdered tech threatens to derail a studio’s biggest picture, so newly minted PIs Babs Norman and Guy Brandt are hired to keep the investigation quiet… and the cameras rolling. Navigating diva actors, shady crew members, and a director on the brink, they discover the killer is closer than they think. A zippy, irresistible page-turner, this Hollywood whodunit is pure gold."

~ Kelly Oliver, bestselling author of the Fiona Figg Mysteries

and former National President of Sisters in Crime