L.A. Late @ Night: 5 Noir & Mystery Tales from the Dark Streets of Los Angeles
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (911 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00I9289HM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 442 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Paul's novel WHITE HEAT won the SHAMUS AWARD for Best Indie P.I. novel from the Private Eye Writers of America.
The City of Angels. A beat cop with anger control issues. Marks. Meet your new neighbors: A rising star defense attorney with self doubts. And two brothers with extra bad luck. And of course, the city itself. Enjoy the hot Santa Ana breeze while you sip your tequila. Dip your toes in Echo Park lake. La-La Land. A collection of 5 stories from the Mean Streets of Los Angeles by Shamus Award-Winning author Paul D. Walk down Raymond Chandler’s mean streets. A dinosaur LAPD detective resistant to change. Welcome to Los Angeles. Take a stroll down Sunset Boulevard. The city that sleeps with one eye open. A drifte
"NICE COLLAGE" according to Ibrahim. The book is a nice collage of five noir pieces based on THE only happening place known as LA. We need to read this to know something about the dark and spellbinding day-to-day life led by the populace.. Debbee said A nice collection. I am still in the middle of this awesome compilation of short noir stories by my all time favorite noir writer. I just wanted to say how great it is to have all these stories in one place.I will update this when I finish reading the stories.FINISHED:L.A. Late @ Night is new to me and just as exciting to read as all Mr. Marks stories. As usual, I did not expect the ending to be what it was - a surprise - but, that's exactly why I love about them.This collection also has. Joyce Metzger said Don't Walk The Mean Streets Alone. If you live in L.A., you know better than to venture out late at night. If you don't, be prepared, carry a gun and take extensive deep breathing lessons. Cassie knew the inside of the beast' s lair intimately. It was ebony dark, warm, and lined with exotic furs bearing trimmed nails. She'd won her case. Her stomach had earned a new notch of queasiness.Larry gained a new respect for her when she relinquished the expensive Yamura scarf.On Lucy Railsback's first assignmen
Davesaid this about the stories in that issue: "These stories are buzzing with thesame sort of psychotic madness and energy that you find in the best of JimThompson--and I can't think of higher praise. Characters dancing on the edge ofmadness and destined to slip down the wrong side." When L.A. Hard-hitting. Nothing watered down. You could hate L.A. Late @ Night firstappeared in the anthology Murder on Sunset Boulevard, Cherie Jung of Over MyDead Body chose it as one of her two favorites in the collection and called itout for its innovative modified movie script format.. This is pure noir at its heart.Brutal. Cain would be proud!Marks told me the story came to him as he was cr