motion picture studios

Mary Russell, having been dispatched by Scotland Yard to investigate a silent film studio, goes undercover as part of a crew working on an adaptation of "The Pirates of Penzance" and realizes trouble is brewing when real pirates are hired as part of the cast and they begin to ignore the studio owner Randolph Fflytte's orders to follow their dangerous outlaw leader.

Tracy Vance's job as a tour guide at a Hollywood movie studio inspires her to take cues from romantic films to improve her love life, but she soon learns true love can't be scripted and that the love of her life may actually be staring her in the face.