![]() With a perspective on black filmmaking and skillful pacing, Lupoff makes the most of both period and suspense elements in his mystery.Ĭopyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. Determining that the second fire was a case of arson similar to the first, Lindsey doggedly sniffs out what MacReedy knows and tries to figure out why, and to whom, the old director's memories are a threat. ![]() The next day, 90-year-old Edward MacReedy appears at Lindsey's office to collect on his recently deceased wife's 1934, $25 whole-life policy while he's there, his retirement-home room is torched, destroying the records and mementos of his years as a film director. ![]() Insurance investigator Lindsey checks out the fire at the Pacific Film Archive in which a graduate student died and learns from his significant other, Berkeley police officer Plum, that the fire was caused by arson. Despite occasionally stilted prose and some dubious police procedure, the latest in the Hobart Lindsey/Marvia Plum series (after The Bessie Blue Killer) is an effective puzzler in which the appealing interracial team (Lindsey is white Plum is black) explore the early days of black filmmaking in California. ![]()
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