The Cinema Murder

"The Cinema Murder" is a romance novel about a man's desire to prove himself in the eyes of the woman he loves. Philip Romilly is a struggling actor in a play in London. His fiancé Beatrice drops a bombshell, she is in fact seeing Douglas Romilly, Philip's more successful cousin, a humiliation too great to bear for him. As he storms off in a huff, a plan begins to take root in his mind. He will impersonate his cousin and travel to New York to take part in a lucrative venture that Douglas had set up. While there he meets with the actress Elizabeth Dalston and falls in love with her. But Dalston's play's financier Sylvanus Power has also thrown his hat in the ring, setting the stage for a conflict between the two men…