An edition of The Big Nowhere
(1988)
The Big Nowhere
by James Ellroy
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The author of The Black Dahlia presents the powerful second novel in his L.A. Quartet. In The Big Nowhere, three men are caught up in a massive web of ambition, perversion and deceit. A remarkably vivid portrait of a remarkable time and place.
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Crime, Fiction, Crime in fiction, American Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Upshaw, danny (fictitious character), fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled, Communism and society, Mystery & Detective - General, Fiction - Mystery/ Detective, Crime, fictionPlaces
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The Big Nowhere: A Crime Novel
1988, The Mysterious Press
Hardcover
in English
0892962836 9780892962839
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"Thundershowers hit just before midnight, drowning out the horn honks and noisemaker blare that usually signalled New Year's on the Strip, bringing 1950 to the West Hollywood Substation in a wave of hot squeals with meat wagon backup."
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