Dead is Dead

The Studios rule Hollywood's golden age, and Jake Thorne is a fixer for the best of them, MGM. If you're a big shot, Jake will sober you up, pay off the cops or keep it out of the papers. So when a young girl shows up strangled in a big director's garden, it's all in a days work. But why are the cops trying to warn him off? And why does the dead girl remind him of a past he wants to forget?