The Star of Midnight
By Arthur Somers Roche.
Filmed as Star of
Midnight (1935), directed by Stephen Roberts.
Hardcover.
Published by Dodd, Mead
and Company.
Published 1935.
ASIN: B0DM1RR9L9
Description:
After
his girlfriend, Alice, goes missing, young Tim Winthrop consults with his
friend, criminal lawyer Clay Dalzell. Clay, joined by his fiancée, Donna
Mantin, agrees to help -- only to get involved with the simultaneous
disappearance of stage actress Mary Smith, and the shocking murder of a gossip
columnist poised to provide vital information about Mary. An unsolved gangster
murder and the reappearance of an old flame lead Clay further into the puzzling
maze.