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Dealing Out Death - A Bill Lennox Mystery of Hollywood Murder and Blackmail
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781515425618
Publisher: Black Curtain Press
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A fast-moving Hollywood mystery of murder, blackmail, and studio-lot danger, Dealing Out Death brings W. T. Ballard's hardboiled storytelling to the shadowy side of the movie business.
Bill Lennox knows that Hollywood glamour is mostly paint, lighting, and careful lies. Behind the studio gates are contracts, grudges, jealousies, desperate careers, and men and women willing to gamble everything to protect a secret. When death enters the picture, Lennox is pulled into a case where the polished surface of the film industry hides fear, corruption, and deadly calculation.
As the investigation tightens, Lennox has to sort truth from performance in a world where nearly everyone knows how to play a part. Ballard gives the mystery a crisp professional pace, filling the story with sharp dialogue, dangerous motives, and the backstage atmosphere of an industry built on illusion. First published in 1948, Dealing Out Death is a classic Bill Lennox mystery and a strong example of mid-century American crime fiction with a Hollywood edge.
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