When a dead body turns up on a Warner Brothers soundstage during filming of “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” Jack L. Warner is unhappy. It’s not because someone is dead but because it halts production. This is the opening premise in the latest book in Elizabeth Crowens’s classic cinema-centered mystery series, “Round Up the Unusual Suspects: A Babs Norman Golden Age of Hollywood Mystery.”
Warner calls the police but also hires Babs Norman and Guy Brandt to investigate. The pair of private investigators cracked the Blackbird Killer Case (in the previous book of the series), saving the production of “The Maltese Falcon.”
