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Someone to Watch Over Me
The Jack Shannon Mysteries (Related to this series)
- Author
- Dan Bronson
- Narrator
- Jack Daniel
- Publish Date
- 10 August 2021
- Run Time
- 6 hours 56 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Hollywood, 1947. Jack Shannon, a former actor whose promising career was interrupted by the war and ended by a facial scar sustained in combat, is now a studio publicist. He jokes that the only thing he knows about publicity is how to suppress it, but that, in fact, is his real job. He’s a fixer who babysits the studio’s stars and covers up their bad behavior.
Everything changes for Jack when Savannah Stevens enters his life. A sexpot star in the mold of Jean Harlow and the studio’s biggest box-office draw, she’s a deeply troubled young woman given to emotional breakdowns, unexplained absences from the set, and time-devouring delays occasioned by her paralyzing insecurities and her insistence on dozens of takes.
Jack’s job is to stay with her 24/7, deliver her to the set on time each day, and make sure she completes her current picture, a picture on which the future of the studio depends. All goes well until Savannah disappears, and Jack is assigned the task of finding her … without revealing to anyone, including the police, that she is missing.
Critics Review
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“Reading Someone to Watch Over Me is like watching a classic 1940s black-and-white noir detective movie like The Big Sleep or The Maltese Falcon…Too bad Humphrey Bogart and Robert Mitchum won’t be available if they make a movie out of this excellent tough-guy detective novel.”
Phillip Margolin, New York Times bestselling author
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“There was Sam Spade, Lew Archer, Travis McGee. Now there is Jack Shannon.”
Jameson Parker, author of Dancing with the Dead
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“An impressively original, solidly written, hard-boiled Hollywood noir-style novel…a riveting and inherently absorbing read from cover to cover.”
Midwest Book Review
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“If Raymond Chandler had turned a steely eye to the notorious Hollywood casting couch, the result might well be called Someone to Watch Over Me.”
Malcolm Brooks, author of Painted Horses
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Details
- Author
- Dan Bronson
- Narrator
- Jack Daniel
- Duration
- 6 hours 56 minutes
- Release Date
- 10 August 2021
- ISBN
- 9798200697182
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction, Historical crime and mysteries
Synopsis
Hollywood, 1947. Jack Shannon, a former actor whose promising career was interrupted by the war and ended by a facial scar sustained in combat, is now a studio publicist. He jokes that the only thing he knows about publicity is how to suppress it, but that, in fact, is his real job. He’s a fixer who babysits the studio’s stars and covers up their bad behavior.Everything changes for Jack when Savannah Stevens enters his life. A sexpot star in the mold of Jean Harlow and the studio’s biggest box-office draw, she’s a deeply troubled young woman given to emotional breakdowns, unexplained absences from the set, and time-devouring delays occasioned by her paralyzing insecurities and her insistence on dozens of takes.Jack’s job is to stay with her 24/7, deliver her to the set on time each day, and make sure she completes her current picture, a picture on which the future of the studio depends. All goes well until Savannah disappears, and Jack is assigned the task of finding her … without revealing to anyone, including the police, that she is missing.
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