- Elvis Cole (Fictitious character), Fiction, Drug traffic, Missing persons
When Los Angeles private detective Elvis Cole investigates the disappearance of Ellen Lang's husband and young son, he stumbles into a bizarre nightmare of high-level intrigue, missing drugs, and murder in Hollywood's seamy underworld.
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Classical in form, contemporary, grave and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Robert Crais
- First published
- July 1, 1987
- Pages
- 245
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), RETAILER-EXCLUSIVE TITLES
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780553275858
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Subjects
- Elvis Cole (Fictitious character)
- Fiction
- Drug traffic
- Missing persons
- Cole, elvis (fictitious character), fiction
- Los angeles (calif.), fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled
- Private investigators, fiction
- California, fiction
- Pike, joe (fictitious character), fiction
- Private investigators
- Fiction, mystery & detective, general
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