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The Big Nowhere

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An edition of The Big Nowhere (1988)

The Big Nowhere

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  • ★★★★ 4.25 ·
  • 4 Ratings
  • 17 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 6 Have read

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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Grand Central Publishing
Language
English
Pages
416

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Previews available in: Spanish English

Subjects
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, fiction
Places
Los Angeles (Calif.), California, Los Angeles

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Cover of: El Gran Desierto
El Gran Desierto
2011, Ediciones B Grupo Zeta
Paperback in Spanish
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The Big Nowhere
May 1, 1998, Grand Central Publishing
in English
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The big nowhere
1990, Arrow Bks.
in English
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The Big Nowhere
September 1, 1989, Mysterious Press
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The big nowhere: a crime novel
1988, Mysterious Press
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The big nowhere: a crime novel
1988, Mysterious Press
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The Big Nowhere: A Crime Novel
1988, The Mysterious Press
Hardcover in English
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First Sentence

"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."

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS3555.L6274B5 1988

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7538074M
Internet Archive
bignowhere00jame_0
ISBN 10
0446674370
ISBN 13
9780446674379
Library Thing
24622
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820503

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