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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
  • 7 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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Mysterious Press
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English

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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
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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
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The big nowhere
1990, Arrow Bks.
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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, The Mysterious Press
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The big nowhere: a crime novel
1988, Mysterious Press
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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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OL7535080M
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bignowhere00jame
ISBN 10
0445408324
ISBN 13
9780445408326
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24622
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987132

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