Pirate King
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- Titel: Pirate King : Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes Series, Book 11 / Laurie R King
- Reihe: Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
- Person(en): King, Laurie R
- Sprache: Englisch
- Originalsprache: Englisch
- Umfang: 1 online resource
- Erschienen: 2011
- ISBN/Preis: 9780749040963 (electronic bk)
- Schlagwörter: Fiction ; Historical Fiction ; Mystery ; Electronic books
- Link(s): http://elibraryhh.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=E4C2E551-7D87-4BA3-9BAF-943EF3E11E4E Excerpt
Inhalt: The latest adventure for the intrepid Mary Russell and her husband Sherlock Holmes takes readers into the frenetic world of silent films, where the pirates are real and the shooting isn't all done with cameras.In England's young silent-film industry, the megalomaniacal Randolph Fflytte is king. Nevertheless, Mary Russell is dispatched to investigate the criminal activities that surround Fflytte's popular movie studio. So Russell is travelling undercover to Portugal, along with the film crew that is gearing up to shoot a cinematic extravaganza, Pirate King.Based on Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, the project will either set the standard for movie-making for a generation or sink a boatload of careers.Nothing seems amiss until the enormous company starts rehearsals in Lisbon, where the thirteen blonde-haired, blue-eyed actresses Mary is bemusedly chaperoning meet the swarm of real buccaneers Fflytte has...
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