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Max Skull, film maker, is set on McPurdy High School as the location for his next film. However, neither the School dignitaries or his own crew share his enthusiasm. Max decides to make a personal appeal at the school. At the meeting Margot O¹Banion Lake, Max¹s partner and film cutter, is disturbed to find that Gerald Pruitt is still vice-principal, and shudders Margot, still creepy. Apart from a young female student making reference to a murder back in the old days the meeting passes off well. But despite Max¹s appeal his application for a permit is rejected. Faced with McPurdy¹s grandiose Art Deco splendour being recreated on the lot. Max has one last try by sending his secretary Alice Lingbetter to city hall to discover the reason. But Alice is mugged, and a second threat from the ŒBad Actors Œ is received. Margot begins to get a bad feeling about the film when the art director Stan Blevins dies after falling off some scaffolding, but she agrees to Max¹s request to go over to McPurdy to get some photographs to help with the set. Although, she has a key lent by one of the teachers Peter Slocum, when she runs into the principal Philip Johnson, he is less than pleased. Attempting to make amends to Peter for dropping him in it with his principal over the key borrowing, and trying to apologise to Philip Johnson, Margot stumbles across the information that there is a whole wing of the school that is closed off. She also discovers that Max¹s application was most likely rejected by Harry Madrigal who is chairman of the Historical Preservation Society. When Margot discovers that both Stan and Harry are old McPurdians she sets out to uncover the mystery of McPurdy , which finds her once again in trouble. The relationship between the two very different characters Max and Margot is again handled brilliantly. The mystery is intriguing and true Kit Sloane. I look forward to the next. ------ The two previous books in the series are Final Cut and Grape Noir 'Mystery Women' A group of dedicated readers and authors http://www.mysterywomen.freeserve.co.uk
Reviewed by Lizzie Hayes, January 2003
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