What Tom Spellacy remembered later was that it began as just another 187.
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(1977)
True Confessions
by John Gregory Dunne
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Loosely based on the "Black Dahlia" case, this novel of Irish-Catholic life in Southern California just after World War II centers on two brothers, Tom and Des Spellacy. Tom is a homicide detective and Des is a priest on the rise within the Church. The investigation of an unidentified murder victim whose bisected body is found in a vacant lot in the shadow of the Los Angeles Coliseum provides the background against which are played the ever changing loyalties of the two brothers.
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Brothers, fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Fiction, general, Mystery and detective stories, California, fiction, Fiction, Brothers, Detectives, Family relationships, Priests, Murder, Investigation, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction in English, Literatura estadounidenseTimes
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"What Tom Spellacy remembered later was that it began as just another 187."
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