Valentino: Film Detective

Valentino has a perfect job for a film buff - he is a film detective who locates lost movies so that they can be preserved for future generations. And often he has to become an amateur sleuth as well. To locate a fragment of a film long considered to have vanished, Valentino has to jet to remote locations or to find ancient Hollywood producers and bit players. But there can be danger as well: people sometimes are willing to kill to ensure that a film stays lost.

Loren D. Estleman has won 17 major awards for his writing, including 4 Shamuses from the Private Eye Writers of America.