Keystone Author:Peter Lovesey Warwick Easton is a cop -- a movie cop. When this solemn, slightly pompous vaudevillian lands in California, his screen prospects look bleak. But an extraordinary bathtub meeting with the King of Comedy, Mack Sennett, lands Easton at least two sure things -- a moniker ("Keystone") and, more important, a job (five dollars a day, stunts ... more »and chases, no questions asked).
Certainly, dangers are to be expected in the rough-and-tumble world of the Keystone Cops -- but murder is quite another thing. As comedy turns to crime -- a horriffic death on a roller coaster, a corpse in a bungalow, the disappearance of a beautiful girl -- "Keystone" the cop suddenly finds himself both the case's only dedicated sleuth and, unfortunately, its prime suspect.« less