All That Glitters: A Novel

The interlocking lives of five Hollywood leading ladies spawn "tragedies, dark doings, jealousies, murder, passion on the grand scale" (Chicago Tribune).

Charlie Caine has been to too many Hollywood funerals. The studio system is long gone, and its stars—some forgotten, some preserved for display on a late-night show—are beginning to pass on, as well. Only a few turn out for the final performance of Babe Austrian, a peroxide-blond beauty whose red-hot talkies changed the way America thoug...