Books : Hollywood and Crime: Original Crime Stories Set During the History of Hollywood
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781605980133
ISBN: 1605980137
Label: Pegasus
Manufacturer: Pegasus
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: January 06, 2009
Publisher: Pegasus
Sales Rank: 410317
Studio: Pegasus
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Thrilling new stories set during Tinsletown's glittering criminal past by today's top mystery writers.
Commissioned exclusively for this anthology and featuring the bestselling, always compelling mystery writer Michael Connelly, as well as his broody LAPD police detective Harry Bosch, and such award-winning, A-list talents in the field of crime fiction as Terence Faherty, Gar Anthony Haywood, Dick Lochte, Stuart Kaminsky, and Bill Pronzini, this collection of Hollywood tales sets a literary Klieg light on the most famous intersection in movieland: Hollywood and Vine.
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Rating:
- entertainingThe underlying theme to these fourteen wonderful crime capers is the corner of Hollywood and Vine. All the contributions are strong with a few deserving of award nomination status as this may be the crime anthology of the year. Especially powerful Harry Bosch's "Suicide Run" by Michael Connelly and Moe Howard proves he is no stooge as an amateur sleuth investigating the death of Three Stooges founder Ted Healey in "Murderlized". With homage to Jack Webb and Hedder Hopper amongst other notables, ... Read More
Rating:
- Hollywood And CrimeThis is a clever compilation of crime stories. Michael Connelly and Paul Guyot's tales are especially good.Everyone should have a copy available for a short story when needed and no time to read a full novel.Randisi has put together a great gang of authors.
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