Frames : a Valentino mystery

"Valentino, a mild-mannered UCLA film archivist, buys a decrepit movie palace and discovers that he not only has a skeleton in the secret Prohibition basement but also long-lost priceless reels of film--Erich von Stroheim's infamous "Greed.""
"Discovering a skeleton in a decrepit movie palace he hopes to restore, UCLA firm archivist Valentino also finds a priceless original director's cut of a long-lost classic film and must solve the mystery of the skeleton before the police claim the film as evidence."
"A film archivist discovers rare film footage next to a skeleton and must solve the murder before the police confiscate, and thus ruin, the film as evidence."@en
"Discovering a skeleton in a decrepit movie palace he hopes to restore, UCLA firm archivist Valentino also finds a priceless original director's cut of a long-lost classic film and must solve the mystery of the skeleton before the police claim the film asevidence."@en
"In order to save a priceless print of an old movie, film archivist Valentino must solve the mystery of a skeleton that has been uncovered in a secret Prohibition basement in Hollywood."@en
"From screening rooms to boardrooms, exploding celluloid to fire eating cops this is a thrilling tale."@en