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Shooting Star: AND Spiderweb (Hard Case Crime): AND Spiderweb (Hard Case Crime (Paperback)) (Mass Market Paperback)

by Robert Bloch (Author)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 312 pages
  • Publisher: Dorchester Publishing (25 April 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0843959606
  • ISBN-13: 978-0843959604
  • Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.7 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 148,636 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Contains two complete novels in one volume that finds a one-eyed detective and a blackmailer trapped in a web of murder and deception when they enter the dark underbelly of Hollywood.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Master of the hardboiled style, 7 Oct 2009
By R. Nicholson-morton "Nik Morton" (Alicante, Spain) - See all my reviews
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I've only read the first of the two books (SPIDERWEB) and review that here:

An enjoyable crime noir about Hollywood's dark side. Eddie Haines is a washed-up radio jockey who can't get airtime in LA. Then he's befriended by Professor Otto Hermann who promises to make Eddie rich. All Eddie has to do is pretend to be a gifted self-help guru to the stars. It seems that Hermann has access to many secrets of the film stars and by using Eddie in his new guise of Judson Roberts, they can fleece unsuspecting pigeons. When Eddie meets Ellen and falls in love with her, he can't get out of his deal with Hermann - because he too was being cunningly blackmailed...

Bloch gives away some of the conman's secrets, which should be enlightening and educational. His characters use the psychological studies of the day to good effect to work subtle and convincing scams.

There are some great one-liners in this book. As the Professor explains about one film star hooked on astrology: `But she won't so much as sleep with an assistant producer without consulting the stars.'

Bloch's horror writing style is in evidence as well: `Poinsettias pressed myriad bleeding mouths to a garden wall.'

And he always likes to play with words - as evinced by some of his book and short story titles. Here, he goes all alliterative: `I eyed elkskin and surveyed suede.'

Of course he's a master of the hardboiled style too; this is a great description: `She gave a look that would have made her a fortune as a glass cutter...'
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