Lights! Camera! Mayhem!

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Lights! Camera! Mayhem! brings film producer Calvin Cutter back to St Mary's with a Trojan spectacle. His production casts Astrid Gustafsson as Helen and Dirk Thrust as Achilles, while Max's response to the wooden horse suggests little confidence in the human performances.

The publisher presents the return as the starting point for the historians' latest Christmas chaos.

The site's view is that readers should choose this story for the collision between historical research and entertainment. The proposed epic has a specific subject and a producer already familiar to the institute; that is a distinct invitation from a conventional festive historical jump.

The blurb's theatrical framing also sets up the friction between how the past is studied and how it is sold to an audience.

Read this late-series short after Christmas Pie. Separate ebook and downloadable audio editions are available. Zara Ramm narrates the listed audiobook, which takes 3 hours 17 minutes: longer than many of the seasonal extras, but still a smaller commitment than a St Mary's novel.