The Prince of Beverly Hills: a novel by Stuart Woods

An entertaining read but quickly forgotten, March 20, 2005***


Stuart Woods" recent novels have become quite formulaic with stilted dialogue. This one picks up the pace with a new character Rick Barron who gets lucky in 1930s Hollywood and moves rapidly from demoted cop to head of security to a major studio to studio executive. Along the way Rick encounters some major Hollywood figures and a nasty fictional blackmailer who preys on young starlets. Rick falls for one of these starlets and deals with the blackmailer in such a way that he is no longer a problem.An entertaining read, but no great depth.