Indigo

Valentino uncovers a dark secret in Hollywood''s classic noir era when a lost film pulls him into a web of mystery and murder.

Film detective Valentino is summoned to the estate of Ignacio Bozel to collect a prized donation to the university''s movie library: Bleak Street, a film from the classic noir period, thought lost for more than sixty years.

Bleak Street was never released. Its star, Van Oliver, a gifted and charismatic actor with alleged ties to the mob, disappeared while the project was in post-production, presumably murdered by gangland rivals - another one of Hollywood''s unsolved mysteries. Studio bosses elected to shelve the film rather than risk box-office failure. UCLA''s PR Department is excited about the acquisition, but only if Valentino can find a way to sell it in the mainstream media by way of a sensational discovery to coincide with its release: "We want to know what happened to Oliver."

A simple quest for a few hundred yards of celluloid opens a portal into a place darker than night. As Valentino delves deeper into the mystery surrounding the lost film and its vanished star, he finds himself drawn into a sinister web of secrets, lies, and danger lurking behind the silver screen glamour of old Hollywood.

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