Rex Reed

It is Christmas Eve, and in her fabulous Hollywood mansion Gilda Greenway lies murdered. The Pearls Girl, whose legendary beauty once held a nation in its thrall, will never again see her “family” – the four teenagers she took to her heart to replace the children she could never have, and whom in turn she launched as stars in their own right.

Gathered around Gilda’s grave, the group the press once tagged as her “Four Fans” meet once more. And through the eyes of Billy Buck, gossip columnist and close confidant, we see into their past lives together, as friends, lovers, enemies – and now as prime suspects in a baffling murder case.