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by Edward Wright (Author) "The street smelled of dust and regret ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Orion (20 Feb 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0752852906
  • ISBN-13: 978-0752852904
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,085,062 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Sierra Lane, once the hero of such films as "Carbine Justice" and "Hell's Rockpile", has fallen on hard times. The one-time B-movie hero has turned to debt collecting to support himself, ironically working for his old Indian co-star. Contacted by a friend, Lane is shocked to be shown some obscene photographs of his stepdaughter. Soon the friend is dead in an "accident". The two events dispel Lane's self pity, setting him off on an investigation: to the Hollywood Hills, Central Avenue, Harlem and, in a way, of himself. Set in Los Angeles of the 1940s, Wright's first novel manages the difficult act of balancing nostalgia, genre homage and excitement with ease. Lane's character, vulnerable and yet hard-bitten, is the archetypal noir hero, so successfully drawn that one feels that further volumes of his adventures are, rightly, inevitable.

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'Winner of the Debut Dagger... and it certainly deserves such a distinction...a satisfying read... so well-written and honest in its style of story-telling'

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5.0 out of 5 stars Chinatown revisited in style, 3 Mar 2003
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This review is from: Clea's Moon (Hardcover)
Very enjoyable, well-researched thriller set in the underbelly of 1940s boom-town Los Angeles. The story's other great asset is its interesting protagonist, a one-time entertainer who has fallen on hard times, and who carries the story with style. An excellent crime debut.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Atmospheric, tough and touching, 25 April 2003
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This is a great bit of writing - the author really immerses you in the period, and tells a gripping story. The main characters - ex B-movie stars, a cowboy and an Indian fallen on hard times - leap off the page. The tale is told with dry wit and a lot of heart, but doesn't pull its punches. Easy to see why it's won prizes.
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5.0 out of 5 stars excellent 40s LA-set crime novel, 31 Jan 2007
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This review is from: Clea's Moon (John Horn) (Paperback)
A great crime novel with a well-evoked setting - LA in the late 40s - and an appealing protagonist : ex B-movie western star John Ray Horn, or 'Sierra Lane' as was, now reduced to collecting debts for his casino-owning former movie sidekick Joseph Mad Crow, after a spell in prison made Horn unemplyable in Hollywood.
The sense of period and place is superbly done, capturing the sprawling expansion of LA after the war, as concrete and tarmac cover what used to be orange groves and canyons where coyotes roamed. Horn is suitably down-at-heel, but possesses the steely and understated stoicism of the best Chandler-esque heroes of 40s fiction and film, like a Bogart character taken out of a film noir and put on the page.
There's even a pleasing nod to 'The Big Sleep', as Horn goes to 'Geiger's bookstore' on the trail of the men who took some obscene photos - including one of Clea, Horns' stepdaughter - after Horn's friend Scotty finds the photos in his dead father's safe. Soon after, Scotty is discovered dead in an apparent suicide, and Clea goes missing...
The writing is confident and assured, and all the more impressive for being a debut novel, and I've already ordered the author's next two.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Very good first novel in a series
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