At last: a glitzy Hollywood novel by

the renowned film critic who knows every.

one s secrets. For years Flex Reed has de-

lighted the world with his sharp and witty

movie reviews. But all along he has had a

very different story to tell. a grand and

glittery novel revealing the stars personal

and professional passions: their adulteries

and marriages, their great successes, their

dark failures. Personal Effects is that story.

And like all Hollywood stories, it has

a cast of memorable characters. They re

all gathered around the grave of Gilda

Greenway Hollywood s immortal star.

and most famous murder victim.

Cilda: dazzling and magnetic, she was

a Hollywood legend in Hollywood s golden

era, a voluptuous beauty whose elusive

glamour inspired yearning hearts across

America. Eccentric Gilda: at the peak of

her career she looked back and decided to

nurture the younger generation, gathering

around her four bright young talents, rising

stars the press immediately tagged the

" Four Fans: She brought them to Holly-

wood more than twenty-five years ago.

Now she s brought them together again

as murder suspects.

Devon Barnes: raised in a dirt poor town

in "Texas, Devon s stunning, raven-haired

beauty gave her easy entree into Holly-

wood s tinier circle. A civil rights crusader

and one of Hollywood s toughest critics,

she could have conquered any man in

town-anyone, that is. but the one man

she had loved since the day she met Gilda

Greenway.