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Vaudeville, Old & New: an Encyclopedia of Variety Performers in America, our large format, two-volume history of vaudeville from the early 19th century to the start of the 21st, was published by Routledge Press in 2007. It continues to sell to individuals as well as research and university libraries from Pacific Asia to the Near East, Europe and North America, and the publisher has less than 60 copies remaining. You can still purchase Vaudeville, Old & New directly from AVM at a discount. |
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Purchase author Frank Cullen’s newest offerings; the first two Porridge Sisters Mysteries, |
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Murder at the Tremont Theatre: the First Porridge Sisters Mystery, written by AVM co-founders Frank Cullen and Donald McNeilly, introduces sisters Florrie and Lavinia, proprietors of Portridge Arms, a ‘boarding house for theatricals.’ The sisters are drawn into a larger conspiracy when, in 1908, vaudeville singer Rosetta Rice is called out of retirement and then stabbed to death in Boston’s Tremont Theatre. Available from Amazon, our CreateSpace storefront at https://www.createspace.com/3475288 or, directly from AVM by following the link above. |
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In 1912, straightforward and sensible Lavinia and intuitive but erratic Florrie are drawn into the investigation of a sexual slavery ring that a local newspaper claims is operating out of the Old Howard burlesque theatre in Boston’s infamous Scollay Square. Agnes, their maid, is frantic about the disappearance of her cousin Gracie who has run away with a burlesque troupe. Pony Harris, the reporter who wrote the story about “white slavery” is looking for his missing girlfriend Myra, an Old Howard chorus girl and the source for his story. Tommy, the orphaned newsboy adopted by the Porridge Sisters, is worried about his friend Pony, and Inspector Malachi Brody fears that, once again, the Porridge Sisters are becoming embroiled in a mystery that will lead to Murder at the Old Howard!
Available from our CreateSpace storefront at https://www.createspace.com/3699536, Amazon or, directly from AVM by following the link above.
Meanwhile we are writing Murder at the New Keith Theatre the third Porridge Sisters Mystery (set in 1916) to be published in spring 2012. |
