Who Framed Boris Karloff the new murder mystery by Dwight Kemper!

We're going to be reviewing this amazing book about murder in the classic age of Hollywood and Universal horror. HKCFN will also have an interview with author Dwight Kemper in the near future. For now check out the info on how to get this great book.

PRESS RELEASE

Midnight Marquee Press, Inc. will be taking its second venture into the realm of fiction with WHO FRAMED BORIS KARLOFF? The novel takes real people and settings and places them in a wholly fictional murder of a real person. Dwight Christopher Kemper, the mastermind behind Murder for Hire, wrote the novel. Murder for Hire is Mr. Kemper’s mystery theater Production Company. The company motto: We Will Scare Anywhere!

ABOUT WHO FRAMED BORIS KARLOFF?

The time: November 1938. The story concerns the murder of a Universal Studios Executive on the set of SON OF FRANKENSTEIN. Well after production has wrapped, a Studio security guard discovers Boris Karloff in full Frankenstein Monster makeup on the Stage 7 Laboratory set. A body is lying on the operating table, the body of Martin F. Murphy, Head of Production. The executive has been burnt to a crisp by one of Kenneth Strickfaden’s high voltage monster making machines. Boris's fingerprints are found on the fatal lever. Karloff proclaims his innocence. The studio wants to cover up the scandalous crime, so Cliff Work calls in a favor and has M-G-M Vice President Eddie “The Bulldog” Mannix, the best “fixer” in Hollywood, come to Universal Studios to sweep the murder under the rug. Now a real murderer may go free. Who is the diabolically clever killer using Boris Karloff to commit the perfect crime? Who can beat this villain at his or her own game? Why, none other than Boris’s co-star Basil Rathbone, fresh from his performance as Sherlock Holmes for 20th Century Fox’s production of THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES. Can Rathbone use what he learned playing the Master Detective coupled with his experience as a World War I Intelligence Officer to discover WHO FRAMED BORIS KARLOFF?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dwight Kemper is an accomplished character actor with over 13 years stage experience including an engagement at Carnegie Hall in New York City as Sergei Diaghilev in Anna Pavlova, a biographical ballet he co-authored. He appeared six years on stage as Herr Drosselmeyer in The Nutcracker, as well as Doctor Copellius in Copellia, and Catallebutte in Sleeping Beauty. He is also a stage illusionist and member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians. As Murder for Hire’s Producer and host sleuth Detective Chief Inspector Kemper of Scotland Yard, Mr. Kemper presents original mystery plays for hotels and bed and breakfasts throughout the United States. His mystery shows frequently haunt The Sherwood Inn in Historic Greene, NY. Dwight Kemper is also a film critic for Phantom of the Movies VIDEOSCOPE Magazine where he applies his "critical chain saw" to really bad movies. Visit Mr. Kemper at Murder for Hire’s web site: www.murdermysteytheater.com.

WHO FRAMED BORIS KARLOFF? will be released during the summer, 2007, and features a foreword by Sara Jane Karloff, daughter of the titular Mr. Karloff and is available at Amazon.com, murdermysterytheater,com and midmar.com.