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Film actress Lulu (Girl About Town) and her P.I. beau Freddie solve another mystery. Starlets (both real-life names and fictional) are invited to the Hearst Castle to compete for the role of a lifetime. Then the murders begin. Though somewhat convoluted and completely unbelievable, this is a delicious Old Hollywood page-turner complete with gangsters, blackmail, and snappy dialogue, à la classic cinema.