Books like The Hollywood intrigue by Steve Stevenson

When a Bollywood star asks for help guarding a priceless ruby, Geronimo Stilton and Hercule Poirot find themselves in a film cast with poor acting skills, only to have the gemstone stolen by an unseen thief.

Two children discover an abandoned resort at a once‑throbbing lake, now a dry bog, and form an unlikely friendship with its aging inhabitants—a story of adventure, mystery, and summertime adventure.

James Ellroy’s L.A. Confidential is a hard‑boiled crime novel set in 1950s Los Angeles, following a trio of detectives as they uncover a web of corruption and homicide within the police department.

A young girl uncovers a mysterious connection to Shakespeare's grave.

When their parents vanish, siblings Marty and Grace move in with their scientist uncle and join him on a perilous New Zealand expedition to hunt a giant squid.

"Easy Riders, Raging Bulls vividly chronicles the exuberance and excess of the times: the startling success of Easy Rider and the equally alarming circumstances under which it was made, with drugs, booze, and violent rivalry between costars Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda dominating the set; how a small production company named BBS became the guiding spirit of the youth rebellion in Hollywood and how, along the way, some of its executives helped smuggle Huey Newton out of the country; how director Hal Ashby was busted for drugs and thrown in jail in Toronto; why Martin Scorsese attended the Academy Awards with an FBI escort when Taxi Driver was nominated; how George Lucas, gripped by anxiety, compulsively cut off his own hair while writing Star Wars; how a modest house on Nicholas Beach occupied by actresses Margot Kidder and Jennifer Salt became the unofficial headquarters for the New Hollywood; how Billy Friedkin tried to humiliate Paramount boss Barry Diller; and how screenwriter/director Paul Schrader played Russian roulette in his hot tub. It was a time when an "anything goes" experimentation prevailed both on the screen and off."--BOOK JACKET.

An autobiographical account of the life and times of Robert Evans, Hollywood producer who worked on Love Story, Rosemary's Baby, The Godfather, Marathon Man, Chinatown The Cottonwood Club and many other films.

When the Hardy brothers go undercover as extras on the set of the teen film "Deathstalker," they uncover an arson plot aimed at the ingenue, Anya. A race against time reveals a dramatic film‑industry mystery.

Marilyn Monroe -- Vicky Morgan -- William Holden -- Natalie Wood -- Bob Crane -- all died mysteriously. Why? Each of the celebrities included in this exposé of unsolved mysteries was a member of an exclusive society known as "Hollywood." How did they die? By accident? By natural causes? By malice? By their own hands ...? Why are they still considered "unsolved mysteries?"

Known as the “Movie Capital of the World,” Hollywood is chock-full of offbeat characters, peculiar activities, and strange sightings. With California resident and humorist Joe Oesterle as your guide, meander through bizarre back alleys and darkened theaters, observe the kitschy Singing Chairs of Santa Monica (a pair of 15-foot-tall harmonizing thrones), and take a walk down the haunted Boulevard of Broken Dreams. *Weird Hollywood* also offers readers a hellaciously fun, historical journey into Tinseltown suicide, murder, and mayhem. And who better to preface the tour of this wacky municipality than the Voice of Hollywood himself: Gary Owens.

A Hardy Boys adventure in a zombie movie, where the cast must track down a saboteur that threatens the film's production.