The Tinseltown Murderer
- by Maureen Driscoll
- Novel
- Romance, Mystery and Crime
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- The Tinseltown Murderer by Maureen Driscoll (unknown publisher, December 2019) [e-book].
Josie Matthews and her husband, David Remington, travel to 1936 Los Angeles after discovering that her prior trip to 1929 has changed history—specifically by prolonging World War II. They meet up with friends from 1929 and attempt to find and fix the problem. While doing so, they encounter communists, Nazis, the Los Angeles chapter of the Hitler Youth, movie studio executives, and several murders.
—Tandy Ringoringo
“What? You live almost a hundred years in the future and you’ve never seen microfilm before?” asked Grant, who shook his head. “Women.”
“We have computer code which can store a warehouse of microfilm in a space the size of a pinhead.”
“How the hell do you do that?”
“With a series of zeros and ones.”
“That makes no sense whatsoever.”
“Yeah, I don’t really understand it myself.”
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1930 to 1939: traveled to: 1936
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: home time of the story: 2018 (based on the end of the first book)
- Timeline Models
- Fragile Timeline: Small changes that were made to the timeline in the first book exploded into a massive change to World War II.
- In a Changed Timeline, You Don’t Remember Your Changed Life
- Multiple Naive Timelines
- Remembering Other Timelines: Upon returning at the end of the book, Josie remembers the timeline where she grew up and the timeline that she fixed, but she has to do research to find out about the new fixed timeline.
- Themes
- Fix Your Time Travel Screw-Up!
- Get Rich Quick through Time Travel: David’s use of Josie’s stock market tips.
- Making Things Worse: Josie’s trip in the first book made World War II worse.
- Money Difficulties: Greta in 2018: “Things are much more expensive than I thought, and I ran out of money a while ago.”
- Real-World Tags
- Clark Gable
- World War II: Josie and David have gone back to 1936 to try to prevent a longer, more devastating World War II.
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- The Tinseltown Murderer by Maureen Driscoll (unknown publisher, December 2019) [e-book].