A bright and guilty place
murder, corruption, and L.A.'s scandalous coming of age
1st Anchor Books edition
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Word Count
67,250 words, Guess
Page Count
269 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-101400033586
- ISBN-139781400033584
- Library of Congress Control Number2010502281
- OCLC Control Number462879973
- Open LibraryOL24417182M
Classifications
- DDC364.1/0979494
- LCCHV6795.L6 R39 2010
Description
Los Angeles was the fastest growing city in the world, mad with oil fever, get-rich-quick schemes, celebrity scandals, and religious fervor. It was also rife with organized crime, with a mayor and a DA in the pocket of the syndicates. Here, historian Richard Rayner narrates the entwined lives of two men, Dave Clark and Leslie White, who were caught up in the crimes, murders, and swindles of the day. Over a few transformative years, as the boom times shaded into the Depression, the adventures of Clark and White would inspire pulp fiction and replace L.A.'s reckless optimism with a new cynicism. Together, theirs is the tale of how the city of sunshine got noir. --From publisher description.
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