Hollywood's Skeletons in the Closet

Ray Bradbury is best known for novels such as Fahrenheit 451 and The Illustrated Man, and for good reason.  The book that I am reviewing today is not so well-known, and after reading it, it's safe to say why.  Graveyard for Lunatics is centered around a nameless protagonist who had just been hired by a film studio and receives a mysterious invitation to a graveyard.  What follows is a terrifying discovery that thrusts him into a maelstrom of intrigue and mystery -- and into the dizzy exhilaration of the movie industry at the height of its glittering power.  Whereas the plot of the story is quite intriguing and pulls the curtain back on the goings on  in Hollywood at the time (the story is set in 1954), there are far too many twists and turns that lead nowhere and too many characters to keep up with at certain spots in the novel.  The ending feels rather convoluted, as it tries to explain all of the turns, but doesn't quite make them satisfactory enough for the reader.  Graveyard for Lunatics is good on paper, but it doesn't offer enough to keep the reader long enough, and in some cases, takes forever to finish.