The Continuity Crimes: A Jack Malloy Occult Mystery 1

In Hollywood, everybody wants to be somebody. Unfortunately, somebody else may already own the rights.

Los Angeles, 1930s. Jack Malloy is a private detective with an expired license, a haunted telephone, an argumentative landlord, and a drinking problem that has yet to produce a useful solution.

Then a beautiful blonde walks into his office.

She has eight legs.

Possibly more. The studio contract keeps adding them.

Dolores Delacorte wants Jack to find her murdered husband, recover a stolen supernatural artifact, and explain why Monarch Pictures has begun making unauthorized revisions to her anatomy. It sounds like an ordinary Hollywood contract dispute, except the husband is a dead spider patriarch who won't stay properly deceased, the artifact is holding reality together, and the chief legal authority is an infernal chicken named Clarence.

Things deteriorate from there.

Jack's investigation leads through haunted theaters, supernatural nightclubs, impossible film reels, and studio back lots where the cameras don't merely record reality. They decide which version gets released.

Behind it all stands a mysterious film distributor with a plan to turn the entire city into an audience. Somewhere inside his machinery is Clara Bell, a woman Jack failed seven years earlier, whose disappearance was filed away as conveniently as a bad review.

Now the past is being edited, witnesses are being rewritten, and a woman with silver scissors is removing anything that contradicts the approved story.

Jack has one chance to stop the final release.

Unfortunately, Hollywood has never been particularly interested in the truth.

A darkly comic supernatural detective mystery blending hardboiled noir, occult horror, Hollywood satire, and the occasional catastrophic failure of the American legal system.

The Continuity Crimes: No Scene Accepted is the first Jack Malloy Occult Mystery, where murder is negotiable, death requires legal representation, and nobody gets final cut without a fight.