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Murder, Corruption, and L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age
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Best Book of the Year The Los Angeles Times • The Washington Post Los Angeles was the fastest growing city in the world, mad with oil fever, get-rich-quick schemes, and celebrity scandals. It was also rife with organized crime, with a mayor in the pocket of the syndicates and a DA taking bribes to throw trials. In A Bright and Guilty Place, Richard Rayner narrates the entwined lives of two men, Dave Clark and Leslie White, who were caught up in the crimes, murders, and swindles of the day. Over a few transformative years, as the boom times shaded into the Depression, the adventures of Clark and White would inspire pulp fiction and replace L.A.’s reckless optimism with a new cynicism. Together, theirs is the tale of how the city of sunshine went noir.

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Richard Rayner is the author of Drake’s Fortune, The Cloud Sketcher, The Associates, and several other books.  His writing appears in The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere.  He lives in Los Angeles.   www.brightandguiltyplace.com
Release date NZ
June 1st, 2010
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Illustrations
16 PP. B&W PHOTOGRAPHS
Pages
304
Dimensions
134x203x16
ISBN-13
9781400033584
Product ID
6034359

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