Lone Star LP : An Edna Ferber Mystery

It's 1955, and Edna Ferber is basking in the success of her novel Giant. Headed to Los Angeles, where director George Stevens and Warner Brothers Studio are in the final days of filming her Texas oil epic, she is looking forward to meeting the stars-especially the young James Dean. But there is trouble brewing. Dean has been accused of fathering a child with an unstable (and recently fired) extra named Carisa Krausse. Then when the actress is murdered, James Dean is the prime suspect. With actress Mercedes McCambridge as her sidekick, Edna investigates. As she delves into Hollywood's dark side, she discovers a powerful studio obsessed with a cover-up and a solution she doesn't want to accept-a solution that she, in fact, dreads. Ed Ifkovic taught literature and creative writing at a community college in Connecticut for more than 30 years. Now retired, he devotes himself to writing fiction. Lone Star is his debut novel.