San Francisco, 1947. The War is over and Sgt. Alexander Blade, former kiddie heartthrob of the silent screen, returns to San Francisco to start life anew as a private investigator. With a rented office near Chinatown and a Chinatown exotic dancer as his assistant, Blade tries to make sense of crazy, post-war Frisco.
He’s been hired by an odd, new client with a husband who's gone missing. But when Blade finds his former Hollywood cameraman dead in his office with cash retainer clutched in his lifeless hand, he's pulled into a web of bizarre deaths of former co-stars of his silent pictures.
As Blade delves deeper into the investigation, he suspects the killer may be someone he knows all too well. And as the body count rises, he must confront dark secrets of his past he's been trying to forget.
Join Alexander "Buster" Blade and his assistant, Paloma Liu Tsong as they navigate the treacherous waters of post-war California in Hollywood and Vain, the first installment of the Frisco Detective mystery series. If you enjoy the classic noir of Raymond Chandler, you'll love Hollywood and Vain.