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SET IN HOLLYWOOD DURING THE GLORY DAYS OF THE SILENT FILM
ERA, SILENTS! IS A MYSTERY FROM HISTORY CAPTURING ALL
OF THE ACTION
AND DRAMA THAT MADE TINSEL TOWN
THE MOTION PICTURE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD!


Lillian Lawrence, the silent-era's newest starlet is found shot to death in her room at the Hollywood Hotel only days after she announces plans to leave motion pictures for the less glamorous roles of wife and mother. Lillian's many friends at the studio and her legion of fans across America are all asking the same question: Who could have done such a dastardly deed?

That is exactly what Los Angeles Police Department homicide detectives Robert Winfield and C. K. Mackie are determined to find out as we follow them down the boulevards and through the back alleys of Hollywood in search of the one person who would profit from Lillian Lawrence's death.


What the detectives learn as SILENTS! reveals its twists and turns will leave you as baffled as they are. But persistence pays off and the detectives catch a break in the case that brings Lillian Lawrence's killer to justice . . . or does it? In typical H. P. Oliver fashion, the final solution to the mystery will come as a surprise that will leave you speechless!