The Wizard of La-LA Land (1995)

by Robert Campbell

Series: Whistler (4)

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Campbell's La-La Land novels, starring the cynical detective Whistler, have earned him legions of fans and enthusiastic critical acclaim. In this scorching new mystery, a young male prostitute with a penchant for purple dresses is dead, and the clues to his murder send Whistler on a grim chase into a netherworld seething with lust, depravity, and greed.… (more)

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Depressing, unpleasant people. Read to half-way, then skimmed to end to be sure bad guys get come-upence.
Campbell's writing is good of course; the evil folks are known from the start, and they and the environment are not pretty. What holds your interest is following Whistler and other's tracking the leads to old murder of child and recent death of AIDS victim who wanted to tell what he knew of earlier death. (

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"There are things human beings do to other human beings that are worse than murder, because when you're dead that's the end to memory and pain." --Bosco Silverlake

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For LaVonne, Beautiful lady of the bright and loving spirit.

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Driving south from Hollywood on one of the twelve clear days of the year, the top down on his Cadillac convertible, Mike Rialto--pleased that his good eye was just as dry as his glass eye in the remarkable absence of air pollution--reflected upon the days when he'd first arrived in Hollywood from the East Coast back in 1945.

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Campbell's La-La Land novels, starring the cynical detective Whistler, have earned him legions of fans and enthusiastic critical acclaim. In this scorching new mystery, a young male prostitute with a penchant for purple dresses is dead, and the clues to his murder send Whistler on a grim chase into a netherworld seething with lust, depravity, and greed.

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