Searchlights and Shadows: Garden of Allah, Book 4, by Martin Turnbull
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At the dawn of 1942, the dark days of Pearl Harbor still loom over Los Angeles. America is now at war, and posters warn home front Hollywoodites that loose lips sink ships. Wartime propaganda is the name of the game, and studios are expected to conjure stories that galvanize the public in favor of the war effort. Marcus Adler is an MGM screenwriter whose latest movie was stolen out from under his whiskey glass, and he's determined it won't happen again. He comes up with a surefire hit, but his chance to triumph is threatened by a vicious rumor: "Marcus Adler is a goddamned commie." Gwendolyn Brick is the handiest gal with a needle this side of Edith Head. After losing her job at the Cocoanut Grove, she dreams of opening her own dress store. But banks don't make loans to single girls. However, wartime in LA opens up an opportunity that will rake in the bucks. But will it be worth the trouble if it drags her back into the orbit of Bugsy Siegel? At the outbreak of war, the Hollywood Reporter's circulation starts to shrink like a food rations coupon book. Its lead columnist, Kathryn Massey, realizes she can no longer ignore the obvious: her boss, Billy Wilkerson, is gambling away his fortune - and her future. Could their very survival depend on a place nobody's heard of called Las Vegas? In the city of searchlights, suspicions can lurk behind every shadow. Searchlights and Shadows is the fourth in Martin Turnbull's series of historical novels set during Hollywood's golden age.
Searchlights and Shadows: Garden of Allah, Book 4, by Martin Turnbull- Amazon Sales Rank: #96118 in Audible
- Published on: 2015-06-11
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 659 minutes
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. They just keep getting better! By Danielle Massaro Could I love this series any more? I doubt it! I was hooked from the very first page of the first book of Martin Turnbull's entertaining, engaging series about three friends residing at the Garden of Allah in Classic Hollywood-era Los Angeles. Like the author, I've been enamored of the Golden Age of Hollywood since I was a young kid, and I will literally read anything that has to do with the era, both fiction and non-fiction. Over the years, I've read some not-so-great novels set in Tinseltown, that I read only because of my great love for the topic. However, Mr. Turnbull's series has delighted me and kept my interest from the very beginning, with his very realistic and relatable characters and intriguing, page-turning plotlines. Seeing so many of my favorite actors, actresses, and other classic Hollywood personalities on the page engaging with the main characters is a continuous thrill, and whereas less-talented authors might not be able to pull off intertwining fictional characters into the lives of the real citizens of Hollywood, Mr. Turnbull manages this without a hitch.I read each of the novels in the "Garden of Allah" series with equal parts delight and apprehension, as I watch the page count get higher and the number of pages left to read dwindle away, wishing each book could go on forever. The best part is each installment is even better than the last! I enjoyed this book so much I wish I hadn't read it so fast, but I just couldn't pave myself. Thank you so much for this series, Martin!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A Golden Series of Novels about the Golden Age of Hollywood. By Amos Williams Martin Turnbull has delivered the goods once again with his fourth installment of his Garden of Allah novels, Searchlights and Shadows. Readers of this marvelous series fell in love with his three adorable main characters, Marcus, Kathryn and Gwendolyn, in the first book, The Garden on Sunset, when they first meet as young Hollywood wannabes checking into the newly opened Garden of Allah Hotel in 1927. With the fourth in the series, War War II has started and the Hollywood Canteen has opened to entertain the troops. (There is a wonderful cover that depicts the Canteen with a host of soldiers and sailors lined up to get inside to dance, eat and mingle with stars like Bette Davis.) Kathryn and Gwendolyn, longtime roommates, are volunteers at the Canteen. Gwendolyn is no longer a cigarette girl at the Coconut Grove, and is dappling in the black market, selling nylons, perfumes and lipsticks from South America. Kathryn a reporter for The Hollywood Reporter, lands a gig on the Kraft Music Hall radio show once a week, along with Bing Crosby. And Marcus whose first job in Hollywood was delivering Western Union telegrams, is now employed at MGM as a screenwriter, at times writing scripts that he doesn't get credit for, and writing Tarzan's New York Adventure, but hoping for better assignments to come his way.Martin has a brilliant knack of having his trio of fictional characters intermingling with the legends of that bygone era. Kathryn of course had an affair with the great Orson Welles in Citizen Hollywood, and in the fourth installment, Orson makes a cameo appearance. There is ErrolFlynn, saying, "I like my whiskey old and my women young." When the women get too young, he gets arrested and he has to hire the bigshot attorney Jerry Giesler to defend him. (It was Jerry who helped out Lana Turner when her daughter Cheryl murdered her lover in 1957.) Marcus is no longer carrying a torch for Ramon Navarro, but has fallen in love with Oliver who works for the Breen Office that lays down thelaws of the Production Code. Marcus is accused by Louis B. Mayer the head of MGM of being a pinko leftist sympathizer, like manydenizens of Hollywood during that era, and this is at the juncture where Marcus is achieving success with writing William Tell and FreeLeningrad!Martin can reliably be trusted to come up with memorable scenes in all his books. In this one, there is the party at the Sahara Room at thehotel to celebrate the engagement of Bogart and Lauren Bacall, and the gangster Bugsy Siegel makes several appearances muscling in on Gwendolyn's wartime profiteering. These scenes leap off the Kindle screen, although I must note that for the fourth book I purchased theprint edition which is beautifully printed and bound (in a plant in Middletown, Delaware.) Towards the end of the book, there is a poignant chapter depicting the death of Alla Nazimova, the great silent star who founded the hotel, and the funeral at Forrest Lawn Cemetery , attended by just a handful of her devoted friends. "She was the mother to all of us Gardenites," Kathryn laments.The denouement comes with the war ending, and there is a victory party at the hotel, of course, with Artie Shaw playing the clarinet and with everyone getting drunk, including Louis Calhoun and his lover Dorothy Gish. I won't be a spoiler and reveal how the book ends, I urge readers to get this book in a print edition or on their Kindle to find out for themselves. The first four books covers eighteen years, and in hisblog, Martin warns us that the series will end in 1959, so that should give us another fourteen years in the lives of Marcus, Kathryn and Gwendolyn, and at least two and perhaps three more novels chronicling their joys and their uncanny knack for overcoming obstacles. (They will be about 50 by then!) I can't wait for the fifth novel in the series, they are treasures to be cherished.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. “Finishing a good book is like losing a friend By Mr. R. William Feather once wrote: “Finishing a good book is like losing a friend.” It one of my favorite sayings because it is so true.In this fourth installment of the "Garden of Allah" series the author gives us a more serious and stressful look at not only Hollywood and the Golden Age of Tinsel Town, but also the fears, apprehension and stress the effects of WW II had on the people we have come to know and love in the first three stories.Mr. Turnbull continues to take us back to the exciting days of the 1940's and the challenges Hollywood faced with the beginning of the blacklisting and the sometimes shady and underground activities some had to turn to in order to survive and make their dreams come true in Hollywood.I for one can't wait for the next installment in this series as Marcus, Gwendolyn, Kathryn and the others we have come to know and love enter into the post-war years. These characters have become friends and when one book ends I find I can't wait to find out what happens to them in the next installment.I remember the Hollywood of the 1950's however have heard and read so much about the Hollywood of the 1930' and 40's. Living here in Southern California we were in Hollywood all the time and I remember it so well. And in his "Garden of Allah" series Mr. Turnbull let's me relive some of the times I spent in this area of Los Angeles.What I wouldn’t give for one more dinner at the Tic-Tock or a hot fudge sundae at C.C. Browns. I would so enjoy sitting I one of the listening booths at Wallichs Music City on Sunset and Vine and listen to the latest 33 1/3 recordings. And to walk thru Bullock’s Wilshire again in all of it department store glory. My mind goes crazy (and I LOVE it) with visions and images and I can picture each of the scenes and each of the people from Hollywood Stars to the places around Los Angeles, as I read their stories. Bogy, Bacall, L.B. Mayer, Louella and Hedda, Bette Davis, and so many, many more.Each book would make an amazing film and I hope someday that will happen for you.A big "thank you" to Mr. Turnbull for letting me escape and get to know all of these wonderful people.
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