Groucho Marx, Private Eye: A Mystery Featuring Private Eye Groucho Marx (Mysteries Featuring Groucho Marx Book 2)

Groucho Marx plays detective once more in this hilarious mystery, again aided by former crime reporter Frank Denby, who writes Groucho's radio show. The audacious comedian sets out to prove that a troubled movie actress isn't guilty of murdering a prominent Beverly Hills plastic surgeon. The story unfolds in the Hollywood of the 1930s, and the two consort with gangsters, crooked cops, movie moguls, actors, starlets, and agents. Groucho Marx made the transition from screen to paper in Ron Goulart's widely acclaimed first novel, Groucho Marx, Master Detective, where he debuted as a radio star-cum-private eye. Groucho and Frank aren't enjoying their latest costar, singing child prodigy Polly Pilgrim, a spoiled ingenue. When a prominent Beverly Hills plastic surgeon is found dead in his palatial home, and Polly's mother, the faded actress Frances London, is accused of his murder, Polly's request for Groucho and Frank to help prove her mother's innocence surprises them. She is convinced that Frances has been framed, and despite the mounting evidence against the washed-up perfromer, the pair takes on the case.