**1950s Private Investigator Donald Langham discovers that truth is
stranger than fiction when he investigates a murder on an American movie
set.
- Having just started work as a professional private investigator,
Donald Langham's first client is American movie star Suzie Reynard,
currently shooting a murder mystery film at Marling Hall, an Elizabethan
manor house in the depths of the Norfolk countryside. The film's
director - Suzie's lover - has been receiving threats and Suzie is
convinced his life is in danger.
On arriving at Marling Hall with his fiancée Maria, Langham finds the
film set awash with clashing egos, petty jealousies, ill-advised love
affairs and seething resentments. Matters come to a head when a body is
discovered in the director's trailer.
It would appear to be an open-and-shut case when someone confesses to
the murder. Donald and Maria are not convinced - but why would someone
confess to a crime they haven't committed? If Langham is to uncover the
truth, he must delve into the past and another murder that took place
more than twenty years before...**