Explosive Humphrey Bogart Novel Out
Actor
Humphrey Bogart decides in late 1941 to get a private detective’s badge in real
life. He wants to quit the movies for a new line of work.
After
many years of sweat and 40 movies, Bogie feels he is a failure. Superstardom is
just over the horizon but he has no way of knowing it.
Drinking
to excess and fighting with his third wife Mayo “Sluggy” Methot, Bogie realizes
he is paid $2,000 a week while swashbuckling actor Errol Flynn makes $15,000
per week. And, of all people, cornball Mickey Rooney is the top male movie star
that year. Bogie is disinterested, disgusted, and disheartened in the movie
business.
“I’m
tired of being a guy with a gun in his hand supporting the star who has a gun
in his hand,” he said. A few good films that comes his way are available to him
only because tough guy actor George Raft turned the roles down.
“My
career depends on George Raft rejects,” he moans.
However,
December 3, 1941 is the beginning of a new life for Bogart. A supposedly quiet
weekend on his beloved motor launch with his wife turns into a flaming cauldron
and a preview – four days early – of the intrigue, mayhem and murder of World
War Two.
Bogie
confronts spies and cutthroats, as well as enemy agents with large caliber
pistols spouting flaming lead in his direction. A fortune in stolen crown
jewels comes his way along with a horde of bad guys and girls on a murderous
rampage looking to do him in.
Bogie
also unearths the super-secret lives of big time movie stars who are willing to
kill to keep their kinky sex lives private.
“Humphrey
Bogart, Private Dick” is a hard boiled private eye novel as well as a Hollywood
Historical Novel of the 1940s. There are no cuss words or graphic sex scenes in
this novel.