Speak Easy, A Kate March Mystery
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The 1920's are just beginning to roar when seventeen-year-old Kate March, an amateur slew and budding reporter, charges headlong into the most famous murder scene in Hollywood history. The industry's beloved film director has come to a ghastly end but Kate knows murder makes good copy. Reckless with excitement, Kate sets her sights on solving the mystery and saving her family's failing newspaper business.
Slick dandies and dolled up shebas are no match for Kate and her best friend, Addy, who plunge unceremoniously into dangerous schemes involving salacious gambling dens and illegal speakeasies; not to mention the dark and seedy underbelly of Paramount studios. A spectacularly wild time is had by all until Kate lands on the wrong end of a murder charge.
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