The Jack LeVine Trilogy

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Protection:
Filigrane

Année de parution:
2012

ISBN-13: 9781453276549

<DIV><DIV><b>Three devilishly witty and thrilling noir mysteries </b></div><DIV></div><DIV>Stocky, sweaty, and bald, LeVine is a Jewish private detective who makes a living by being polite. But underneath his smile lies a bulldog. In <i>The Big Kiss-off of 1944</i>, fledgling actress Kerry Lane comes to Jack LeVine when a blackmailer demands a payoff to keep a series of stag films from her past out of the public eye. Lured by long legs and a roll of crisp twenties, LeVine takes Kerry&rsquo;s case. But before he can speak to the blackmailer, the crook turns up dead. As LeVine hunts for Kerry&rsquo;s old films, he finds that the heart of this case is even uglier than greed, lust, or murder. It&rsquo;s politics.</div><DIV>&#160;</div><DIV>In <i>Hollywood and LeVine</i>, screenwriter Walter Adrian seeks the advice of high school buddy Jack LeVine. Studio execs suspect that Adrian is a Communist, and they&rsquo;re lowballing his salary as a result. Though he insists he isn&rsquo;t a Red, Adrian has no way of proving it. LeVine is broke, and has no sympathy for his wealthy friend, but he agrees to fly west to investigate his old classmate&rsquo;s trouble. When he arrives, Adrian hangs dead from the gallows at the Western set on the Warners&rsquo; backlot. Behind his friend&rsquo;s death, LeVine finds a shadowy Cold War conspiracy, and a city far darker than anything Hollywood puts on screen.</div><DIV>&#160;</div><DIV>In <i>Tender Is LeVine</i>, Jack LeVine is just emerging from a vicious funk after the 1948 death of his father. His first client is a German violinist, who visits LeVine out of concern for his maestro, Toscanini, the famous conductor of the NBC Symphony Orchestra. The maestro&rsquo;s memory is slipping, his conducting style has changed, and his eyesight is suddenly vastly improved. The violinist suspects that the conductor has disappeared and been replaced by a double. It&rsquo;s an outlandish suspicion, but LeVine takes the case. After all, somebody has to pay for his new office. Soon enough, LeVine finds out that organized crime is playing the tune . . .</div></div>