Never Cross A Vampire Toby Peters Mystery Series, Book 5.
The stakes are life and death when Bela Lugosi is threatened in this "affectionate parody of the hard-boiled private-eye" genre ( The New York Times ). 1942: In the basement of a crumbling Los Angeles movie palace, five vampires crowd around Bela Lugosi. They should not frighten the fading horror icon, who found worldwide fame as Dracula, for these are only wannabes-diehard fans who get their kicks dressing up as bloodsuckers. But Lugosi is...