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The Penwyth Curse pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
Since the publication of the now clas-
sic The Detective, Roderick Thorp
police novel. He broke the mold cast by
Chandler and Hammett,creating an
entirely new kind of fictional detective
and writing about crime and the workings
of the police in a way that readers instinc-
tively knew to be true. In Rainbow Drive he
does it again. From the first moments,
when a woman s piercing scream tells
Mike Gallagher that something terrible is
going down, to the riveting final pages,
this tough, terrifying novel grips the
reader and won t let go. For Rainbow Drive
is a story of murder and vice, corruption
and cover-up in big-time L.A., where no
one who matters ever goes to jail.
Mike Gallagher is acting head of Homi-
cide, Hollywood Division, when five peo-
ple are murdered on Rainbow Drive in
Laurel Canyon... and the police heli-
copter arrives on the scene before anyone
could possibly have summoned it. Mike
never would have known about the crime
except that at the time he s in bed with a
brunette who happens to live across the
street. When the police delay calling an
ambulance, even though there s a sur-
vivor who may be dying, Mike knows it s
something bigger and dirtier than any-
thing he s ever come up against. Mike
gets the message to butt out. But when
violence erupts again in a string of new
and nasty murders and he realizes some-
one in his own squad might be involved,
Mike won t quit. In a riveting climax, Mike
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The Penwyth Curse pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024