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The Boy in the Gutter
Paperback
Series: Dapper Luoo Mysteries, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 14 2020
Pages: 356
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A devil haunts the City of Angels, and the most unlikely of detectives is on the case.
1947: While Los Angeles is mesmerized by the sensational Black Dahlia murder, an Asian boy's mutilated body is found in a back alley of Chinatown. With the thoroughly corrupt LAPD unwilling to devote their already strained resources to cracking the case, it seems this grisly crime is destined to remain unsolved.Tommy Dapper Luoo, a Chinese American college student, has dreams of becoming a private detective. Incensed and frustrated by the police's lack of concern, he decides to help his community by finding out what truly happened.
But all is not what it seems as Dapper is drawn into a web of deceit and danger at every turn. For the City of Angels hides a dark underworld, where devils prey upon the damned and the desperate.
Dapper is undaunted however, and he'll keep on digging for answers, even if it kills him.
If you like hardboiled detective fiction with equal helpings of James Ellroy, Walter Mosley, Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, and Dashiell Hammett, check out this newest crime noir novel by John Triptych.
CAUTION: mature themes.
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