- Private investigators, Fiction, Large type books, Mystery and detective stories
When wealthy, young Palm Springs resident Jack Watson is shot and then incinerated in his Rolls Royce, his father seeks revenge by calling on LAPD homicide detective Sidney Blackpool to sort things out.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Joseph Wambaugh
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 302
- Publisher
- Perigord, Joseph, Generic
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780708883686
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