Edna Ferber mysteries

In June 1951, author Edna Ferber is in Hollywood to support Max Jeffries, an old friend who has been blacklisted as a Communist in the McCarthy hearings. Max was part of the new Hollywood production of the film Show Boat, based on Ferber's novel, but has now been expelled from the MGM lot and shunned by his friends. When Max ends up dead, Edna must search for answers. She plays sleuth quietly, becoming involved with not only Show Boat star Ava Gardner...

When she decides to take to the stage in 1940, actress Edna Ferber, arriving in Maplewood, New Jersey, for a week of summer stock, finds her escape from troubling daily headlines short lived when an understudy is murdered.

"January 3, 1935. The trial opens in Flemington, New Jersey, for the man accused of the crime of the century. And Edna Ferber is there to cover it. 1932. On a windy March 1 night, Charles Lindbergh, America's hero, discovers that his twenty-month-old son has been snatched from his crib. A ransom is arranged. Yet two months later, Little Lindy is found in a ditch near his Hopewell home, several weeks dead from a blow to the head. It takes over two...

Edna Ferber and Noel Coward attempt to clear the name of a mutual acquaintence accused of murdering an aspiring Broadway actress.