Alone
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Valentino wants to keep The Oracle, his beloved run-down movie palace, from being condemned before it even reopens, but murder keeps intruding into his otherwise quiet life. He's enjoying a gala party held in memory of screen legend Greta Garbo until the host, a hotshot developer named Rankin, tells Valentino about a letter from Garbo to Rankin's late wife. She and Garbo had been ... close.<BR>Rankin tells Val that his assistant, Akers, is using this letter to blackmail him. Val is appalled by the thought of blackmail ... but the letter sounds juicier all the time. When he goes back to Rankin's mansion to try to discuss buying - or at least seeing - the letter, Rankin is sitting at his desk with a pistol in his hand, looking at Akers's dead body on the floor. Rankin claims he killed Akers in self-defense, but Valentino doesn't know what to think.<BR>Valentino's in a quandary. He'd love to see that letter, but he can't. He's already gotten his girlfriend, who works for the police, in trouble with her boss over it - it's evidence in a murder case, after all. Their tiff has, pardon the expression, shot his love life to hell. Worse yet, the building inspector has kicked Val out of his unfinished living space in The Oracle. So he takes his life in his hands and moves in with his eccentric mentor, the elderly, insomniac Professor Broadhead. Now he's got no love, no sleep, no letter. And if he doesn't solve Akers's murder, he may well have no future.
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