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Dame Alice Hits Hollywood (Dame Alice Mysteries)
by Allie Mahoney
Dame Alice Hits Hollywood (Dame Alice Mysteries)
Cozy Mystery
1st in Series
Setting – Old Hollywood and Beverly Hills, circa 1937.
Wrenfield Books (May 23, 2023)
Digital Print length : 139 pages
April 1937: When Penelope Greenleigh, assistant at Ten Spot Press, learns she’ll be heading to Hollywood to supervise script changes on the set of Lady Irwin’s Diamonds, she should be thrilled. Who wouldn’t want to mingle with movie stars in sunny California?
But there’s a catch: Penelope, 29 and from Cape May, New Jersey, has been asked to impersonate Dame Alice Cartwright, the world’s bestselling mystery author, who’s 47 and lives in Copley-on-the-Wold, England.
On the night Penelope arrives in L.A., Lady Irwin‘s lead actress disappears and a Harry Winston necklace goes missing. Soon, gossip columnist Hattie Holiday threatens to expose Penelope’s deception, mobsters are coming after the film’s boozy director, and worst of all, Dame Alice’s script has gone from murder mystery to Fred and Ginger-style musical!
The action unfolds at the Beverly Hills Hotel, the Trocadero, and hotspot Chasen’s as Penelope works to solve the crimes alongside a handsome detective and a hapless studio flunky. Can she find the diamonds, the actress, and survive a wild week in Hollywood?
My Review of Dame Alice Hits Hollywood
Oh, the good old days. When guys were guys, and dolls were dolls….oops, my love of musicals is showing. Dame Alice Hits Hollywood takes place in old Hollywood. 1937 to be exact. Dame Alice Cartwright’s books are selling like hotcakes, and Hollywood has gotten a hold of one. They’re turning it into a movie that’ll be exactly like the book….if only that’s the way Hollywood worked. Raise your hand if you think the book is always better. Me too. Nevertheless, Dame Alice has provided a script for the movie, and in typical Hollywood style, they want to make “some” changes. They need the author, but Dame Alice doesn’t want to leave England to travel to Hollywood.
Enter Penelope Greenleigh, professional impersonator. Kidding! Penelope is a 29 year old from New Jersey and is an assistant at Ten Spot Press. Poor Penelope has to impersonate a 47 year old British author! As you can imagine, madcap comedy and chaos ensues. The movie company wants all kinds of rewrites, and they want it to be a musical now! Then jewels go missing. People go missing! The show must go on….
Dame Alice Hits Hollywood hits the right notes with the characters, plot, mystery, and comedy. I loved the main characters. Their interactions and the situations that they get themselves into are so funny! They’ve got loads of personality, and I am excited to meet up with them in the next book! The author does a great job of describing the settings and the clothes! Don’t you love how they dressed in the 30s? And the actors from that era! I adore classic movies and musicals, so this was especially entertaining for me.
If you’re a fan of cozies, classic movies, musicals, and madcap comedy (and don’t mind a bit of language), you’ll be a fan of Dame Alice Hits Hollywood! I definitely recommend it and will read more of the series!
I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book. All views expressed are only my honest opinion.
About Allie Mahoney
A longtime magazine journalist, Allie Mahoney has written for Town & Country, Time Out New York, and Cosmo. A lifelong Agatha Christie fan, her shelves are also filled with the books of P.G. Wodehouse, Dave Barry, Sophie Kinsella, and Carl Hiaasen. Additional guilty pleasures: Classic Hollywood movies, fashion, dogs, Bravo tv, BritBox, Phillies baseball, and the beach.
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Dame Alice Hits Hollywood TOUR PARTICIPANTS
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July 19 – Baroness Book Trove – REVIEW
July 19 – Sapphyria’s Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
July 20 – Christy’s Cozy Corners – REVIEW
July 20 – Jane Reads – AUTHOR GUEST POST
July 21 – Brooke Blogs – SPOTLIGHT
July 22 – Celticlady’s Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
July 22 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT
July 23 – Cozy Up With Kathy – REVIEW, AUTHOR INTERVIEW
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July 24 – Maureen’s Musings – SPOTLIGHT
July 25 – Nadaness In Motion – REVIEW, AUTHOR GUEST POST
July 26 – Read Your Writes Book Reviews – AUTHOR INTERVIEW
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July 27 – Literary Gold – AUTHOR INTERVIEW
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View Comments (3)
This looks like a very interesting novel. Thanks for the giveaway opportunity.
So grateful!! I hope you have a great weekend Christy! Thank you for reading and getting into the Dame Alice vibe of Old Hollywood!
You're welcome! I'm looking forward to more of the "detectives." Thanks for stopping by!