“I wanted a job. I got a murder.”

When makeup artist Toby Swanson joined the Fox Film Corporation in 1914, he hoped to sneak a kiss from the studio’s newest star, the seductive vamp Theda Bara. But when a scene goes horribly wrong, Bara’s film is cancelled and her dreams of stardom crushed. Unless. . .

. . .she can prove what looked like an accident was really murder.

So together, Theda and Toby dive into showbiz New York, from dancing with a young Rudolph Valentino to sharing the vaudeville stage with Sophie Tucker and learning lock-picking secrets from Harry Houdini, all leading to a long-forgotten church crypt holding a desperate secret.

It’s New York at the dawn of the twentieth century, a time of big bridges, big skyscrapers and big money. And it’s a time when movies - the biggest new business of them all - joins hands with the oldest.

The Director’s Cut is the first of the Theda Bara Mysteries.

About the Author: Christopher DiGrazia is a silent film enthusiast and lecturer living in Haverhill, Massachusetts, only a stone’s throw away from the site the Orpheum, Louis B. Mayer’s first movie theatre.

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