The Jinx Theatre Murder

<p>A scream mounting higher and higher over the bustle and clatter back-stage at the Bolton Theatre— A woman staggers from the star’s dressing-room her white satin gown stained and patterned with the gory foot-prints of a little dog her face contorted into a mask of horror—</p><p>But the show must go on!</p><p>The audience must be entertained—must laugh—while murder stalks among them. A killer may be on the stage among the players he may be among the musicians in the orchestra or he may be sitting there among the spectators.</p><p>Anything might happen here. The Bolton Theatre is known to the theatrical profession as a “jinx house.”</p><p>Defying convention public opinion the press the District Attorney himself Detective-Sergeant Pietro Tonelli who glories in the proud title of “cop” carries out a bold plan to detect a murderer who has come and gone like a phantom.</p><p>A crisp story with action in every line. A glamorous picture of life behind the scenes of a great city written by a newspaper man who knows.</p><p><em>The Jinx Theatre Murder </em>was published in 1933. (More classic mysteries available from CoachwhipBooks.com.)</p>