Christopher DiGrazia is a writer living in Haverhill, Massachusetts, only a stone's throw away from the site of the Orpheum, Louis B. Mayer's first movie theater. Formerly a contributing columnist to "Ripperologist" magazine and co-author of "The News From Whitechapel: Jack the Ripper in the 'Daily Telegraph,' he has lectured and written about silent films for the last ten years. He is currently at work on the second Theda Bara mystery, "Hollywood and Vain."