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Los Angeles detective Mario Villalobos' investigation of a seemingly routine murder leads him to a famous university where the struggle for recognition, funds, and the Nobel prize may have high costs.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and contemporary.
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- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Joseph Wambaugh
- First published
- 1984
- Pages
- 291
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780553273861
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