Hush My Inner Sleuth

In the fall of 1947 an impressionable young scholar finds herself seduced by the spirit of a Hollywood pulp detective....This serpentine saga opens at a New England womens college where the ever-playful Betty escapes a meddlesome narrator by slipping her friend a mickey and assuming her identity. Undaunted the plucky storyteller adopts said friend--the literarily precocious Willie--and accompanies her to L.A.Meanwhile the pulp-inflected ghost of Skip Ryker--a recently atomized Hollywood detective--tries in vain to solve his untimely demise. What he needs it quickly becomes apparent is a willing instrument.The ensuing collision of these disparate narratives sparks a battle royal for control of Willies suggestible psyche--and subsequently movie rights to the book.