PORTER DOWN HOLLYWOOD MYSTERY NOVELS
Contact: Greg@gregorymank.com
# 1. Frankenstein's Witch: St. Lizzie, Pray for Us
(BearManor Media, 2022)
# 2. Platinum Widow: Who Killed
Jean Harlow's Husband?
(tentatively scheduled for June 2023
publication - see my “UPCOMING”
page for more details on this book. )
Wherein P.I. Porter Down solves
the real-life unexplained mystery
of Jean Harlow's husband Paul
Bern's death - or does he?
# 3. Untitled - set during the making of Mark of the Vampire (in early drafts)
P.I. Porter Down must hunt down a vampire who is also a murderer and a necrophile.
Although these are only in the concept stage, the following are additional 1930s/1940s movies around which future Porter Down mysteries might revolve:
Beau Geste (1939)
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)