A Bright and Guilty Place: Murder, Corruption, and L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age

✍ Scribed by Rayner, Richard

• Book ID: 108064998
• Publisher: Anchor
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 860 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780385530118

✦ Synopsis

Best Book of the Year
** The Los Angeles Times • The Washington Post **

Los Angeles was the fastest growing city in the world, mad with oil fever, get-rich-quick schemes, and celebrity scandals. It was also rife with organized crime, with a mayor in the pocket of the syndicates and a DA taking bribes to throw trials. In A Bright and Guilty Place , Richard Rayner narrates the entwined lives of two men, Dave Clark and Leslie White, who were caught up in the crimes, murders, and swindles of the day. Over a few transformative years, as the boom times shaded into the Depression, the adventures of Clark and White would inspire pulp fiction and replace L.A.’s reckless optimism with a new cynicism. Together, theirs is the tale of how the city of sunshine went noir.

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