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Who Framed Boris Karloff? (2007) 6 kappaletta

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It's late 1938 and Boris Karloff finds himself in the frame when he stumbles across the body of an overbearing studio exec on the set of Son of Frankenstein. The belligerent 'fixer' Eddie (The Bulldog) Mannix is called in to cover it up, but Boris, being the fine English gent that he is, enlists his co-stars Basil Rathbone and Bela Lugosi to uncover the real killer. Our terrifying trio find themselves drawn ever deeper into a story of mixed identities, mob connections and Hollywood studio politics, with more suspects than you can shake a stick at! The plot twists and turns in a truly engaging manner and evokes the period perfectly, but the real joy of the book lies in the fun-filled fantasy of the interaction between the 3 Bs: Boris, Basil and Bela! Kemper, obviously a huge fan of all three, paints a wonderful, if entirely fabricated, relationship between the three leads. The dialogue sparkles and brings the disparate personalities and characteristics of the three actors to vivid life on the printed page. Rathbone takes on the mantle of Sherlock Holmes, as incisive on the page as he is on the screen. You'll laugh out loud over Bela Lugosi's casual quips as he steals every scene he's in, complaining at every turn about always playing second fiddle to Karloff! And Boris is the glue, the sanity, the balance that keeps them all pulling together. While the relationship depicted between the three actors is pretty much entirely fantasy, it is the sort of endearing 'what if' scenario that you can't help but love.

The book itself is a durable trade paperback with colorful cover art by Frank Dietz, and also includes a very brief intro by Sara Karloff.

For Universal monster fans, for fans of any of the actors featured or even just lovers of a good vintage La La Land mystery, do yourself a favor and order Dwight Kemper's WHO FRAMED BORIS KARLOFF?
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