Lady Rample and the Silver Screen

Lady Rample #3

by Shéa MacLeod

When an invitation to a Hollywood wedding arrives in London, Lady Rample and Aunt Butty are living the glamorous life among the rich and famous in California. But when their movie producer host is found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot, they find themselves embroiled in a mystery involving a silver screen starlet, a conniving butler, and kidnapping gangsters!

Suspicious from the start, Lady Rample is determined to prove that their friend didn’t commit suicide. Unfortunately, proving murder might end in another murder…her own.

Lose yourself in 1930s Hollywood with the latest installment of the popular historical cozy mystery series, Lady Rample Mysteries.

Genres: Mystery, Historical Fiction, Historical, Cozy Mystery, Fiction

202 pages, Paperback

Published August 23, 2018

About the author

Shéa MacLeod has dreamed of writing novels since before she could hold a crayon. She totally blames her mother.

Her favorite poem as a child was ‘Jabberwocky’, and Her favorite authors were Agatha Christie and Edgar Allan Poe. Which probably explains a lot.

After a six year sojourn in London, England, a dearth of good donuts has driven her back to her hometown. She now resides in the leafy green hills outside Portland, Oregon where she indulges in her fondness for strong coffee, Ancient Aliens reruns, lemon curd, and dragons.

Because everything's better with dragons.

Shéa is the author of the SUNWALKER SAGA (a fast paced urban fantasy series with a kick-ass heroine published by Montlake) and DRAGON WARS (a post-apocalyptic series with dragons)as well as the Cupcake Goddess novelettes.

Reviews

[Dominique Daoust · Rating 4 out of 5]

What a fun little romp! I enjoyed Lady Rample visiting Hollywood. And I also enjoyed all the cameos from actors of that era (not to mention the parallels with Jean Harlow’s second marriage to Paul Bern).

Can’t wait to see what other shenanigans Lady Rample and Aunt Butty get into!

[Deb · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lady Rample goes to Hollywood with her eccentric aunt to attend the wedding of a producer who befriended her uno twenty years earlier in New York City. Less than forty-eight hours in to their stay, and the day after the wedding, the groom turns up dead. Naturally Lady Rample feels that she must help the police in their investigation, whether they want her to or not. Set in 1930s Hollywood, the scene is filled with stars (Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Carole Lombard), Dusenbergs, suspicious chauffeurs, ditzy starlets and somewhere in all of this, a murderer. Means, motive and opportunity indeed.

[Larry · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book. The rags to riches story never gets old, and instead of growing snooty, the Lady Rample treats people fairly and when she decides a suicide is instead a murder, she doesn't let go till it's proven. The characters are very interesting, the plot is easily followed, and the premise is finding out who killed Lady Bunty's old New York friend and why. The answers are convoluted and quite revealing. I do recommend this book.

[Toby · Rating 4 out of 5]

Unread shelf project 2023: book 90.

I do enjoy this series! I have the next 3 on my Kindle so I will definitely keep reading — they aren’t dense or “clever” but they are diverting and absorbing which what I need these days!

[Danielle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ophilia's adventures with Aunt Butty are almost as outrageous as Aunt Butty's hats, but oh so much fun!

[Sharon Stine · Rating 2 out of 5]

Typical formula mystery writing

[Carolynn · Rating 4 out of 5]

What a fun series. Enjoy!

[Keela · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just wish these books were longer. They're really more like novellas.

[Jen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Listened on audio