Hollywood Nocturnes

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Publication Year:
2011

ISBN-13: 9781453229163

<DIV><B>In&#160;&ldquo;Dick Contino&rsquo;s Blues,&rdquo; a novella inspired by the real-life entertainer, a serial killer on the loose in West Hollywood gets tangled up with a fake kidnapping; the collection also includes&#160;five stories of corrupt cops, goons with guns, and mobsters, all set in the fading glory of 1950s Los Angeles</B><BR /><BR /> Nobody plays accordion like Dick Contino. His skilled fingers can find beauty in even the schmaltziest borscht belt favorites, and with his matinee-idol looks he could be a real star. Right now, though, he&rsquo;s slumming it as the headliner in a Grade Z teenybopper picture called <I>Daddy-O</I>. He&rsquo;s too good for this movie, and finishing it is going to take him to a very dark place.</DIV><DIV>&#160;</DIV><DIV><I>Daddy-O</I> and Dick Contino are both real, their stories dredged out of the past by James Ellroy, a master of historical crime fiction. In <I>Dick Contino&rsquo;s Blues</I> he takes us to B-List Hollywood in 1957&mdash;a time when movies were cheerful and dirty secrets lurked just off camera. Included along with the novella are five short stories, all in the author&rsquo;s inimitable tough-bitten style.</DIV>