Project Gutenberg 2009-07-23 Public domain in the USA. 278 Kummer, Frederic Arnold 1873 1943 Fredericks, Arnold Foster, Will 1882 1953 Foster, William Frederick Foster, Bill The Film of Fear Produced by Cindy Horton, Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "The Film of Fear" by Arnold Fredericks is a fictional work written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around actress Ruth Morton, who finds herself a target of threatening notes that promise to ruin her beauty. The plot unfolds in a glamorous yet menacing Hollywood backdrop, filled with intrigue and the dangers of envy in the competitive world of film. The opening of the novel introduces Ruth Morton, a rising motion picture star whose daily routine includes sifting through a barrage of fan mail. However, her seemingly glamorous life takes a dark turn when she receives a chilling letter sealed with a sinister death's head emblem, declaring that her beauty will be destroyed within thirty days. As Ruth grapples with the threat and its implications, her concerned mother enlists the help of Richard Duvall, an adept investigator, to uncover the source of the threats. This sets the stage for a gripping exploration of jealousy, fame, and the lengths people will go to sabotage others. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 83.4 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Detective and mystery stories PS Text Browsing: Crime/Mystery Browsing: Literature Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery Category: Novels Category: American Literature 392979 2025-06-12T08:49:40.763427 text/html 393363 2021-01-05T08:48:13 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 271771 2021-01-05T08:48:13 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 280791 2025-06-12T08:49:46.830922 application/epub+zip 287102 2025-06-12T08:49:41.696962 application/epub+zip 202880 2025-06-12T08:49:41.231431 application/epub+zip 417219 2025-06-12T08:49:51.048859 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 385725 2025-06-12T08:49:46.365854 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 302173 2022-09-13T15:40:28.923826 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 365976 2025-06-12T08:49:39.902431 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 365844 2021-01-05T08:48:13 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 131204 2021-01-05T08:48:13 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 365835 2021-01-05T08:48:13 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 131182 2021-01-05T08:48:13 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20660 2025-06-12T08:49:51.214849 application/rdf+xml 14070 2025-06-12T08:49:41.327419 image/jpeg 2117 2025-06-12T08:49:41.281372 image/jpeg 272601 2025-06-12T08:49:40.805410 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia