The cutting room

"Roy Milano, an avid movie buff, stumbles into a world of intrigue when he tries to retrieve a print of one of Orson Welles's films after it has been stolen and the owner of the print has been killed."@en
"Self-proclaimed movie geek and divorced 30-something Roy Milano lives alone in a cramped Manhattan apartment, toiling as a freelancer to make ends meet. It's a life perfectly suited to the creator of Trivial Man, Roy's self-published newsletter--filled with tidbits of little-known Tinseltown lore for the delight of other fringe-dwelling cinemaphiles, and it's a tantalizing phone call from one such kindred spirit that thrusts Roy headlong into his waking noir nightmare."@en
"Compelled to be the first person to locate a missing unpublished manuscript of Orson Welles's "The Magnificent Ambersons," movie buff Roy Milano finds his life changed by the murderous machinations of sinister adversaries."@en